Jones v. Wickstrom

CAMPBELL, J., pro tem.

This action is one to foreclose a contractor’s lien and recover a balance claimed to be due in the sum of $2,757.88 on the construction of an apartment house in the city of Los Angeles. Defendant in her answer sets up the defense that the contract was procured by plaintiff through fraud and misrepresentation; that plaintiff represented that he was a licensed architect and a builder of skill and efficiency, when in truth and in fact he was not a licensed architect, nor had he at the time of entering into the contract—February 3, 1923—any experience in the building of…