Green

This is an action to declare a trust, and for an accounting. The parties to this action entered into the following' contract:—

It is alleged in the complaint that the consideration for said contract was that plaintiff should disclose to said Brooks and Cuddy information in advance of the knowledge defendants and others of the fact of the place in the city of Los Angeles, state of California, of the intended location of the new passenger depot of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company; that said Cuddy should, in advance of the knowledge of that fact by others in said city, use his skill in selecting a desirable tract of land in the vicinity of said intended depot, and negotiating the sale of the same to defendant Brooks; that said Brooks should thereupon purchase the tract to be by said Cuddy selected, and also in consideration of the obligations and interests assumed and arising from the terms of the agreement above set forth.

It is further alleged that the plaintiff did disclose the location of said depot-grounds as agreed upon, and that the same was located at the place designated; that Brooks purchased a certain tract of land near said location, as agreed in said contract, for…