McCord

These are appeals from judgments in favor of each of the two defendants upon their separate demurrers to the plaintiffs’ amended complaint. The same and the single question involved in each appeal is as to whether or not the twenty-five causes of action set forth in the complaint were assignable to the plaintiffs, who sue as the assignees thereof. General and special demurrers similar in form and substance were presented by each of said defendants to each of said causes of action. The court made a general order sustaining said demurrers without leave to amend. It seems to be conceded that the order of the court sustaining these demurrers was based upon the general ground that the complaint fails to state a cause of action in any of its counts because of the nonassignability of the claims sued upon. To that question this court will therefore address itself, regardless of any uncertainty in the complaint assailed by the special demurrers; for as to these the trial court, had it based its orders sustaining the demurrers upon any of the special grounds, should have granted leave to amend.

The facts of the case as revealed by the averments of the plaintiffs ’ complaint are these: The…