City of Colorado Springs v. Coray

January 8, 1908, E. Gr. Coray, the appellee, brought his suit to recover from the City of Colorado Springs the sum of $2,360 for services alleged to have been rendered by him for the city between May 6, 1902, and April 20,1903. After hearing the evidence, the court instructed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in a sum to be found by it as the reasonable value of his services, computed at not less than five dollars per day, nor more than eight dollars per day, for a number of days not less than 293 nor more than 295, together with interest from April 20, 1903. Verdict was…