Beavers v. Sueur
Decision Date | 20 June 1939 |
Docket Number | No. 12671,12671 |
Citation | 3 S.E.2d 667 |
Parties | BEAVERS . v. LE SUEUR et al. |
Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
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1. The deed made by the defendant husband to his wife purporting to convey for a valuable consideration his equitable interest in land after execution of a security deed to the plaintiff was not shown by the petition to be invalid and subject to cancellation as a conveyance made by the husband to defraud the plaintiff as a creditor, it not appearing that the wife had any knowledge of such alleged fraud, or "ground for reasonable suspicion." Such conveyance to the wife was not subject to cancellation at the instance of the plaintiff on the theory that its mere execution and delivery imperiled his security.
2. An agreement by the grantor in a security deed to keep "all insurance premiums for insurance on the houses thereof, during the time this loan is in existence paid promptly, " does not require the grantor to carry any insurance payable to the grantee. Accordingly, although the grantor caused a policy of insurance upon a house or houses to be made payable to the grantee, since he was not required by the contract to maintain such insurance, the conveyance of his equitable interest to a third person, even if operating to avoid the policy, would not constitute a violation of the quoted provision of the security deed. Under this ruling, the petition did not show that the conveyance by the husband to his wife was subject to cancellation on the ground that it voided or imperiled the insurance policy which the plaintiff claimed to hold under the terms of the security deed.
3. A stipulation in a deed that it is given to secure a specified note and future advances, and that it "shall also operate as security for any and all other indebtedness which the grantor herein may now owe or may hereafter owe to grantee, " does not embrace a contingent and unliquidated claim for damages based upon an alleged breach by the grantor of an independent contract of employment entered into by him in his professional capacity as an attorney at law; hence the security deed was not subject to foreclosure for the enforcement of such claim.
4. So far as the petition sought foreclosure of the security deed to enforce payment of the note, it was not subject to dismissal on general demurrer, although there was no allegation that this debt was past due.
Error from Superior Court, Sumter County; W. M. Harper, Judge.
Suit by F. G. Beavers against R. L. Le Sueur and wife to foreclose a security deed as an equitable mortgage, to cancel a deed made by defendant Le Sueur to his wife, for appointment of a receiver, and for other relief. Judgment of dismissal on general demurrer, and plaintiff brings error.
Judgment reversed.
On September 29, 1938, F. G. Beavers filed a suit in the superior court of Sumter County against R. L. LeSueur and his wife, Mrs. LeSueur, seeking to foreclose as an equitable mortgage a security deed made by LeSueur to the plaintiff on February" 26, 1937, conveying described real property in the City of Americus, and to cancel a deed subsequently made by LeSueur conveying to his wife the same realty together with additional property, subject to the debt specified in the deed to Beavers. The petition prayed also for appointmentof a receiver, and for other relief. After two amendments were filed and allowed, the petition was dismissed on general demurrer, and the plaintiff excepted.
The deed from Le Sueur to the plaintiff conveyed six lots in a named subdivision, and recited: The deed from LeSueur to his wife recited that it was made "in consideration of the sum of $10 and good and valuable considerations, in hand paid, " and also: The petition did not show that the note for $1650 expressly mentioned in the plaintiff's security deed had matured by its terms. The plaintiff sought, however, to foreclose the security deed, not only as to this indebtedness, but also for the additional sum of $1882.35, claimed by the plaintiff as damages against the defendant LeSueur as an attorney at law for his alleged breach of contract in failing to exercise ordinary diligence and reasonable skill in the management of described litigation in which he had been employed by the plaintiff in April, 1936, and which was not terminated until April, 1938. See Beavers v. Cassells, 56 Ga.App. 146, 192 S.E. 249; Beavers v. Cassells, 186 Ga. 98, 196 S.E. 716. As basis for such foreclosure, as well as for the claimed right to equitable cancellation of the deed from LeSueur to his wife, only the following allegations were made in the original petition:
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