Taylor

Plaintiffs appeal from two judgments dismissing their action as to defendants Hammel and Barrett and as to the Domestic Utilities Manufacturing Company, after orders sustaining the demurrers of said defendants to plaintiffs’ complaint, plaintiffs having declined to amend.

The complaint is very long, somewhat involved, and contains various ambiguities and uncertainties, which, however, are not attacked by the demurrers. From it we gather the following facts: In August, 1910, plaintiffs received from the defendant corporation two certain contracts of sale for specified lots of so-called “vacuum clothes-washers. ” For one of these contracts plaintiffs paid the sum of $150; for the other they deeded to one of the defendants the real property described in the complaint. Plaintiffs were induced thereto by various false representations and devices so grossly fraudulent as to impel the courts to make every effort within the law to afford relief therefrom. The defendants Hammel and Barrett are in no way charged with actual participation in the frauds.

After receiving the contracts and parting with their property and before discovery of the fraud, plaintiffs were further induced by…