Strassburger v. Santa Fe Land Improvement Co.

This is an appeal from an order denying an application for a change of the place of trial.

The plaintiff commenced this action in the city and county of San Francisco against the defendants to recover damages for alleged false representations and fraudulent concealments whereby the plaintiff was induced to part with an undivided one-fourth interest in certain lands described in the complaint for a sum greatly less than their value. The two defendants, sued under the fictitious names of John Doe and Richard Roe, have not been served with a summons, nor have they appeared in the action. The…