Goodwin v. Wolpe

Plaintiffs filed a complaint for damages based upon express fraud. (Civ. Code, §§ 1572, 3294.) The complaint alleged that the defendants, Wolpe, Volpe and Reed, owned a business consisting of the Club Caravan bar and hotel located in a building in Indio, and that defendant, Paul Krampe, was the agent and broker of the defendant-sellers of the business (in accordance with a request contained in plaintiffs’ pretrial statement, an amendment to paragraph IV of the complaint was later made to the effect that Krampe was agent for both the sellers and the buyers); that before the sale, and to induce…