Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. Western United Constructors, Inc.

HANSON, J. pro tem.

The decisive question in this case is whether oral misrepresentations alleged to have been made by the cross-defendants for their own benefit and not that of a third person to induce the loan of money to such third person are or are not actionable in view of a statute of this state which provides that evidence with respect to oral misrepresentations as to the credit of a third person are not admissible in evidence.

The trial court sustained demurrers, general and special, interposed by the cross-defendants, who are respondents here, without leave to amend and entered its…