Wantz v. Union Bank & Trust Co.

ARCHBALD, J., pro tem.

Appeal by defendants from a judgment against them based on the verdict of a jury awarding $21,269.21 as damages for alleged fraudulent representations in the purchase and sale of lands and as inducement to plaintiff’s entering into contracts for the improvement of the lands so agreed to be purchased.

It appears without question that the defendant Union Bank & Trust Company held the legal title to the lands in question for the benefit of the owner, Los Angeles County Farm Land Company, and J. M. Barteaux, who was purchasing them under an agreement to improve and sell the…