McCarthy v. Superior Court

This proceeding arises out of an action for damages for breach of contract, pending in the Superior Court, San Francisco, wherein A. L. Adkins and John J. Wintersteen are plaintiffs and Robert McCarthy, the petitioner herein, is defendant. The complaint therein alleges that in 1942 petitioner engaged Adkins and Wintersteen to obtain for him certain contracts; that they procured two contracts for war housing projects at Richmond and one for a similar project at Alameda, and that petitioner’s gross profit from the three contracts was $385,000; that ten per cent is a reasonable sum for their…