Baker
Baker v. Brown
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Paterson, J.
B. was the owner of lot 5, and a fractional part of lot 2, block 6, of the city of Pasadena, and through the agency of the defendant sold the same to P. for the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars. Thereafter, the defendant applied to P. to purchase said fractional portion of lot 2, but P. declined to sell any portion of the property unless he could sell the whole, *65 but then and there proposed to the defendant that if he would find a purchaser for lot 5 for the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars, he would give to the defendant the remaining portion of the premises, to wit, said fractional portion of lot 2. The court finds that the defendant went to the plaintiff and offered to sell her lot 5 for the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars, informing her at the time that it was the same property he had sold for B. to P. for one thousand eight hundred dollars, but concealed from the plaintiff the fact that lot 5 did not embrace all the property he so sold to P. for said sum, and also concealed from her the personal interest he had in affecting the sale of lot 5. The court further found that “at this time, and for a long time prior thereto, the defendant occupied…