Knight v. City of Eureka
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Humboldt County. G. W. Hunter, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
THE COURT.
Action upon an express contract to recover for services as attorney at law. At the close of plaintiff’s evidence the court gave judgment of nonsuit, from which plaintiff appeals.
It appears that an action was brought against defendant in the circuit court of the United States, at San Francisco, on January 21, 1886, by certain Chinamen who sued for damages alleged to have been suffered by reason of the destruction of their property by a mob in defendant city on February 27, 1885. These claims aggregated the sum of one hundred and thirty-two thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.…
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