Spencer v. Prindle
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court, Fourth Judicial District, City and County of San Francisco. Defendant appealed from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial. The other facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Sawyer, J.
The plaintiffs—being attorneys at law—sued Prindle for professional services. The services were admitted on the trial, ¡j and the only issue was as to their value. William H. Patterson, an attorney, having been asked the general question, as to the reasonable value of the services of plaintiffs, without any reference in the question to any particular kind of money to be taken as the standard of valué, answered, “that the ser*277vices were worth one thousand dollars in greenbacks, or five hundred dollars in coin.” The other witnesses all made similar answers to similar…
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