Harbor Business Blocks Co. v. Gregory

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff, a corporation doing business' in California, brought this action against the defendant to recover on six promissory notes executed by her as part payment for certain town lots in Contra Costa county,. California, on the east Side of San Francisco Bay. The sale of the lots to defendant was effected through the fraud and misrepresentation of plaintiff’s agents. It would serve no purpose to give the details of the swindle. Let it suffice to say that it was of that familiar, high-handed type which prompted the' Golden State to…