Elam v. Shushan

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff is appealing from a judgment rejecting his demand for the value of services rendered as a civil engineer. The amount claimed is $4,000.

There was no contract between the parties, either written or verbal. The plaintiff is relying upon articles 2292, 2293 and 2294 of the Civil Code, dealing with obligations arising without an agreement between the parties, and defining quasi contracts as voluntary acts from which obligations result without any previous agreement that they should result.

The defendant’s plea, on which the judge rejected the plaintiff’s demand,…