De Vall v. Perrin
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, and from an order granting a new trial. John Hunt, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Jacob M. Blake, John R. Tyrrell, and Crittenden Thornton, for Appellant A. M. De Vall.
1Opinion of the CourtRichards, J.
These are two appeals—one from a judgment for the plaintiff entered upon a verdict of a jury in his favor for the sum of twenty thousand dollars; the other an appeal by said plaintiff from an order granting the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
The action was instituted by the plaintiff as the assignee of two claims for legal services alleged to have been rendered to the defendant by his assignors, the first being a claim for such services by Barclay Henley, alleged to have been reasonably worth the sum of fifty thousand dollars, upon which payments aggregating seven thousand dollars were…
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