Norris

This action is to recover money alleged to he due the plaintiff as commission on sales of X-ray equipment and similar articles manufactured and sold hy the defendant corporations. Plaintiff alleged that each of the defendants was a corporation organized under the laws of a state other than California; “that within two years last past the said defendants became indebted to plaintiff in the sum of $4,832.43 for services rendered to said defendants by plaintiff at said defendants’ special instance and request, in the sale of merchandise for said defendants. ’ ’

It is then alleged that a portion of said sum has been paid and that there remains due and unpaid the sum of $1,566.54, for which sum judgment is prayed. A joint judgment was rendered against the defendants for the sum of $1,294.15, from which they appeal.

Respondent justifies the joint judgment rendered in this case by the finding of the trial court: “That the defendants herein, while organized as three distinct corporate entities, are owned by and operated by the same persons and have the same officers and the same place of business in Lynn, Massachusetts, and the services rendered by the plaintiff herein were rendered to,…