Cunningham
Cunningham v. Burbank Board of Realtors
Opinion
Opinion
Fourt, J.
This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal entered after defendants’ demurrer to plaintiffs’ third amended complaint was sustained without leave to amend.
In a third amended complaint plaintiffs allege among other things that they are, and were, individually members of the Burbank Board of Realtors (hereafter referred to as Board), that they were doing business as brokers and salesmen, that they had invested many years and thousands of dollars in the development of the business which had been highly profitable and gave promise of being more so in the future: that the Board is a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of California, that Ernest J. Fazio is a realtor and does .business in Burbank, that the other individually named defendants are the officers and directors of the Board: that plaintiffs since March 1959 have been active members in good standing of the Board, have used the title or term ‘1 realtor ’ ’ in their business operations, that such use of such name is of great value to plaintiffs, that as members of the Board they are entitled to additional rights and benefits of great value: that the by-laws of the Board provide in effect that there must be a…