Wilson
Wilson v. Moriarty
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Foote, J.
This action was instituted for the purpose of having a certain contract of lease rescinded. The defendant demurred to the complaint filed, upon the grounds,—1. That it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action; 2. That it was ambiguous, unintelligible, and uncertain in various particulars.
The demurrer was sustained, and the plaintiff declining to amend her complaint, judgment passed for the defendant, from which an appeal was taken.
The facts stated in the complaint are, as it appears to us, different from those set up in the case of Hawkins v. Hawkins, 50 Cal. 558 , the decision in which is relied on by the respondent here. In that case there was no allegation that the plaintiff was a person of weak mind, or that the consideration for the making of the contract was inadequate. It seems to have been a case where the party, deceived as to the terms of the contract he apparently assented to, was simply an unlettered and illiterate person, of ordinarily sound intellect, we must *598 suppose, who, by his own carelessness, had allowed himself to be entrapped, and where the defendant occupied no trust relation.