Chung v. Johnston

VALLÉE, J.

Appeal by defendants from a judgment which decrees that plaintiff convey to defendants a parcel of realty; and that plaintiff have judgment against defendants for $7,086.34, secured by a lien on the property conveyed.

Plaintiff is an educated Korean but does not speak the English language fluently. Defendants are husband and wife; the husband, when he acted alone, will be referred to as defendant. Since 1946 defendant had acted as plaintiff’s broker in buying and selling real estate and in investing his funds. The claim of plaintiff is that defendants induced him to convey to them a…