Legal Opinion
County of Campbell v. Howard
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided June 15, 1922PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:
The questions presented by the assignments of error will be disposed of in their order as stated below.
1. Were instructions 1, 1-a and 1-b erroneous, in that they set up a wrong standard by which the jury were directed to measure the amount of recovery — • namely, the value of the benefit derived by the county from the services in question (i. e., the value of the services on a quantum valebat); instead of the value in itself of the work done (i, e., the value of the services on a quantum meruit)?
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