Denio v. City of Huntington Beach

The defendant appeals from a judgment awarding the plaintiffs $19,718.83 as attorney fees under a contract of employment calling for the payment of percentages of certain royalties received by the defendant.

This action involves the same contract and the same general facts as those in Denio v. City of Huntington Beach, 22 Cal.2d 580 [140 P.2d 392, 149 A.L.R. 320]. The facts are rather fully stated in the opinion in that ease and need not be repeated here. It was there held that the contract of employment was valid and binding upon the defendant city, that the plaintiffs were wrongfully…