Hopkins

This is an action in which plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant for $1,980, as damages for the breach of a contract. The defendant, as its name indicates, is engaged in the business of abstracting and certifying the titles of real property. On the 18th of November, 1915, the plaintiff with one Gustav Weber visited the defendant’s office in Fresno, and Weber delivered to the defendant a certificate of title covering the north half of lots 16 and 17 of the Riverside Colony theretofore issued by defendant, showing one John Bartsch to be the owner of the property. Weber also delivered to the defendant two deeds, which, if they were genuine, would have made title in Weber himself, and also a note for two thousand dollars and a mortgage on the property to secure the payment of thé same, and the plaintiff at this time delivered to defendant a check in favor of Weber drawn by plaintiff for the sum of $1,980. Thereupon the plaintiff told the defendant’s agent with whom he was dealing that he wished to make a loan on the property for two thousand dollars, and either Weber or the plaintiff indicated that they wished the defendant to attend to seeing that the title of Weber…