This appeal illustrates the wisdom of William Shakespeare’s words, “Neither a borrower nor lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” (Hamlet, act I, scene 3.) Two friends bought a duplex together; one paid the down payment while the other, to even things out, paid a greater share of the monthly mortgage bill. The friendship soured, and one sued the other for partition and sale of the duplex as well as for an accounting. After an eight-day bench trial, the trial court found that the former friends had entered into an oral agreement on how to pay off the mortgage loan. The losing friend appeals, raising a panoply of arguments. Those arguments are either waived or meritless. We accordingly affirm.
ABTL's Members-Only Summer Judicial Reception will be outside at the Omni Hotel (in DTLA) on June 26, from 6 to 8 p.m., honoring the local judiciary, including the Ninth Circuit and 2d District Court of Appeal.
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