Edwards v. Baker

The action was based upon three certain promissory notes, each for the sum of $266.66, dated Modesto, September 27, 1910, payable, respectively, on the fifth days of April of 1913, 1914, and 1915, executed by defendant and payable to the order of plaintiffs.

It is deemed proper first to explain that the notes sued on were given by Baker to the plaintiffs as the result of the compromise of a suit brought against the latter by the former, upon a quantum meruit, for the reasonable value of services performed by the plaintiffs in negotiating the sale of certain lands for the defendant to one P.…