Devlin v. City of Pleasanton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action by F. E. Devlin, a civil engineer, against the city of Pleasanton, on alternative causes of action, one on a city warrant for $2,750 issued by defendant to plaintiff, and another upon a settlement agreement whereby defendant' obligated itself to pay plaintiff $2,750 for engineering services.

This controversy had its inception as follows: On April 14, 1924, the city of Pleasanton determined to pave certain of its streets, and to that end it employed the plaintiff, a civil engineer whose headquarters were in Wichita, “to…