McDonald v. Filice

In the fall of 1961 respondent, a licensed architect, contacted appellants who were joint owners of two adjacent parcels of real property located near the shores of Lake Tahoe, California, and secured their permission to submit a design proposal for the construction of a motel on their land. A month or two later respondent prepared an architectural rendering of a four-story motel and in due time the preliminary drawings or sketches were submitted to the Board of Supervisors of El Dorado County for zoning approval. The board, however, objected to the construction of a four-story motel, but…