Harold v. Pugh

Defendant appeals from a judgment for $14,950 compensatory damages and $1,500 exemplary damages awarded plaintiffs as a result of an egregious fraud practiced upon them by defendant. The case grows out of the same set of facts as People v. Pugh, 137 Cal.App.2d 226 [289 P.2d 826], wherein this court affirmed Pugh’s conviction of grand theft of real property of Keith Harold and his mother Verna B. Harold,—the same property and the same deal which are hereinafter discussed. Appellant advances 10 different grounds of reversal, none of which is meritorious.

Counsel has wholly failed to “demonstrate…