Myers

for herself, and on behalf of her assignors, brought this action against the defendants, copartners conducting the St. Catherine’s Hospital, in the city of Santa Monica. The action is one for damages, the amount of which is alleged to be the value of services during the time plaintiff and her assignors were ■ employed at said hospital, at the rate of fifteen dollars per week. The trial was had before a jury. A verdict was rendered for plaintiff upon three counts. Judgment was entered accordingly, and defendants appeal.

[1] In substance, the allegations of the complaint are that plaintiff and her assignors were induced by the defendants to enter the hospital and take up training there, upon the representations of the defendants that the said hospital was an accredited training school for nurses, which had met the requirements of the state board of health of the state of California, and that the graduates of said school were eligible for examination by, and registration with, the board; that relying upon these representations plaintiff and her assignors entered the hospital, and for varying periods of time were employed in caring for patients under treatment, without compensation;…