Barstow v. City R. R.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. This action was tried by the Court below without a jury, and resulted in a judgment for plaintiff for two thousand five hundred dollars, as prayed in his complaint. A motion for a new trial having been overruled, defendant appealed from the judgment and order. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Wallace, J.:
The plaintiff was a Director of the corporation defendant, and alleges that he was employed by defendant, while holding that position, to go to Hew York and there engage in *466certain negotiations then pending there between the defendant and one Randall, concerning the execution or modification of a proposed contract between defendant and Randall for the construction of the defendant’s projected railroad. It is alleged in the complaint that the defendant promised to pay the plaintiff “ for his services and expenditures, including traveling expenses, whatever the same…
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