Los Angeles Rock & Gravel Co. v. City of Los Angeles

This is an action for declaratory relief, the complaint alleging that a controversy existed between the parties as to whether the defendant was liable to the plaintiff for the payment of interest from the entry of two several judgments against the city for costs. The defendant filed a cross-complaint alleging that by mistake it had paid interest on one of these judgments; that it had tendered to the plaintiff in full settlement of the second judgment a sum equal to the difference between the face of the judgment and the sum thus alleged to have been paid through mistake. The trial court…