Bonnarjee

This action was brought by the plaintiffs, who are husband and wife, to recover from the defendants, also husband and wife, the sum of three thousand dollars as damages resulting from an exchange of properties by the respective parties, brought about by the aid of false representations on the part of the agent who negotiated the transaction. Judgment went for plaintiffs in the sum demanded, and the defendants appeal.

The appellants make several contentions in support of their appeal, among them being that the evidence is insufficient to show that the agent in the transaction was in fact the defendants’ agent; that it is also insufficient to show the values of the respective properties upon the difference in which the court based the amount of damages allowed; and furthermore, that the appellants are not responsible for the fraudulent representations of the agent, even conceding that he acted for them.

The facts are substantially these: Basanta C. Bonnarjee (hereinafter referred to as the plaintiff), a native of India and a convert to the Christian religion, was living with his wife in Chicago, and there owned a brick building. Desiring by reason of his wife’s illness to go to…