Sontag v. Denio

The plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment which was rendered against them following an order sustaining defendants’ demurrer to the complaint without leave to amend the pleading. The complaint alleges fraud on the part of the defendants in procuring from the plaintiffs a deed of conveyance to their real property and extrinsic fraud in preventing them from appearing or answering a complaint filed by the defendants in a proceeding to declare the deed to be a mortgage and to foreclose that instrument. The complaint in this action seeks to annul the deed and to set aside the judgment of…