Kane

This is an appeal by the defendants from a judgment against them in an action in which plaintiffs asked for a rescission of a contract by which they purchased certain land in the Imperial Valley from the defendants. Plaintiffs alleged that the contract had been induced by false and fraudulent representations, which allegations were denied by the defendants. In response to evidence offered by the plaintiffs, the court found that the parties had entered into the contract for the purchase and sale of the land in question and that the plaintiffs had paid $1,000 upon the purchase price thereof and given their promissory note for $6,000, the balance of the purchase price, secured by first mortgage upon the property; that plaintiffs performed all the terms of their contract; that plaintiff Elvira Kane, who negotiated the purchase for the plaintiffs, had come to the county of Imperial and the state of California only shortly before entering into said contract; that she was entirely unfamiliar with conditions and land in said county and state and knew nothing of business transactions, nor of farming; that she made the purchase without the aid and advice of her husband, the other plaintiff…