Monahan v. Watson

This is an action on a promissory note executed by both defendants to plaintiff as the payee. The defendant Watson was not served with summons and did not appear. The defendant Hopkins filed an answer and a cross-complaint wherein he alleged that the note, which had been given for a part of the purchase price of certain personal property in the city of Los Angeles purchased by defendants from plaintiff, was procured by fraud in that plaintiff made certain alleged false and fraudulent representations respecting the property. Hopkins claimed to have been damaged in the sum of twenty thousand…