Freligh

tem. — The plaintiff and appellant brought an action in the municipal court of Los Angeles County to recover the sum of $1,000 paid by her in a transaction involving the leasing of an apartment house in the city of Los Angeles, owned by the defendant Mrs. Susan B. McGrew. Judgment went for the plaintiff and defendant appealed to the superior court. The matter is now before us on appeal from a judgment of reversal rendered by the superior court.

It appears from the facts contained in the statement submitted to the superior court on appeal that about September 9, 1924, Mrs. Freligh began negotiations for the leasing of the McGrew Apartments through Mrs. McGrew’s agents, R. J. Frank and J. M. Schisler, co-defendants named in the complaint. The term of the proposed lease was for ten years, at a monthly rental of $500, unfurnished, the first and last months’ rent to be paid in advance. The premises were under lease at the time to a Mrs. Craig,'and she owned the furniture. It is claimed by the plaintiff that prior to the execution of the lease on September 14, 1924, Frank and Schisler, as the agents of Mrs. McGrew, made certain promises of assistance to her, the plaintiff, in order to…