Hildreth v. Williams

Citations

• 4 Cal. Unrep. 141
• 33 P. 1113
• 1893 Cal. LEXIS 1034

Syllabus

<p>Promissory Note—Attorney Fee—Pledge.—Statutes of 1873-74, page 707, providing that “in all eases of foreclosure of mortgage the attorney’s fee shall be fixed by the court, .... any stipulation in said mortgage to the contrary notwithstanding,” relates only to mortgage foreclosures, and does not apply to an action to enforce a pledge.1</p> <p>Promissory Note—Amount of Attorney Fee.—Where a stipulation in a note for an attorney’s fee in case the note is sued on does not fix the amount of such fee, a reasonable sum therefor will be allowed.2</p>