Strassburger

This is an appeal from an order denying an application for a change of the place of trial.

The plaintiff commenced this action in the city and county of San Francisco against the defendants to recover damages for alleged false representations and fraudulent concealments whereby the plaintiff was induced to part with an undivided one-fourth interest in certain lands described in the complaint for a sum greatly less than their value. The two defendants, sued under the fictitious names of John Doe and Richard Roe, have not been served with a summons, nor have they appeared in the action. The corporate defendants appeared by demurrer, and at the same time filed and served a demand in writing for a change of the place of trial from the city and county of San Francisco to the county of Los Angeles. They also filed an affidavit of merits, and an affidavit showing substantially that at the time of the filing of the complaint the two corporate defendants were residents of and their principal place of business was and is the county of Los Angeles. It is also averred in said affidavit, but upon information and belief only, that neither of the defendants sued under fictitious names resides…