Crozier

The complaint alleges that, for a valuable consideration, the defendant agreed to purchase for the plaintiffs the land described in the complaint and to pay the purchase price thereof “for and on behalf of said plaintiffs” ; that, thereafter, “without the knowledge or consent of said plaintiffs, the said defendant did procure and purchase said property and . . . obtained, without the knowledge or consent of said plaintiffs, or without at any time informing said plaintiffs of said procurance, a deed, . . . granting and conveying all right, title and interest in and to said property to herself, said defendant”; and “that said property is now of the value of $3,000.” The prayer is for a judgment compelling the defendant to convey the property to the plaintiffs, “or in lieu thereof give plaintiffs judgment for the reasonable value of said property.”

The defendant did not demur to the complaint, but answered, denying that she agreed to purchase the property for the plaintiffs, alleging that she purchased it for herself, and admitting that it is of the reasonable value of $1200.

The court found the foregoing allegations of the complaint, except as to value, to be true; that the…