MacEdo

Plaintiffs sued to recover the sum of five thousand four hundred dollars as damages for the alleged false representations as to the value of land situated in Santa Clara County which they received from the defendants in trade for their property situated in Madera County. The cause was tried before the court, sitting without a jury, and judgment was entered in favor of the defendants, from which the plaintiffs appeal under section 953a of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The cause of action is founded upon the allegations of the third amended complaint in which it is claimed that the respondent Goodrich falsely represented to the appellants that the seven-acre tract of land situated on the Story road in the county of Santa Clara, and which came to the appellants as a part of the trade, was of the value of ten thousand dollars, and that the house and lot situated in the city of San Jose, and also traded to the appellants, was of the value of five thousand dollars. The trial court found that the respondent Goodrich did not represent these parcels to be of the value alleged in the third amended complaint, and also found that no false representations were made to the appellants as an…