Schneider v. Henley

This is an action to rescind a sale of shares of stock in a mining corporation upon the ground of fraud, and to recover from defendants the sum of one thousand dollars, the price paid for the stock, with interest.

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of nonsuit in favor of defendants Henley and Schoenfeld and also from a judgment in favor of defendant Shannon. The two appeals were consolidated for hearing by order of this court.

Plaintiffs, in asking for a reversal, say, at the outset, that they rely upon the decision of the supreme court in the case of Beeman v. Richardson, 185 Cal. 280 [196 Pac.…