Town of Santa Monica v. Eckert
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from Superior Court, Los Angeles County; Lueien Shaw, Judge. Action by the town of Santa Monica against Robert Eckert and others. Prom a judgment of the superior court reversing a judgment for defendants, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNES, C.
This action was brought by the town of Santa Monica, a municipal corporation of the sixth class, in the recorder’s court, to recover the amount of a license alleged to be due from the defendants for keeping a saloon, the amount of the license fee fixed by the ordinance being $300. In the complaint, plaintiff alleged the amount required to be paid to be $300, but remitted all in excess of $299.99, for the avowed purpose of giving the recorder’s court jurisdiction. Upon the trial in that court defendants had judgment, from which the plaintiff appealed to the superior court, and the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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