Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. Chubb
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Placer County refusing attorney fees to the defendant in eminent domain proceedings. N. J. Amot, Judge presiding. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChipman, P. J.
This was a proceeding in eminent domain in which the jury awarded the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars as damages. It is stated in the transcript: “There was not submitted to the jury, and the jury did not take into consideration any element of attorneys’ fees of the defendant in the ease in its verdict.” In defendant’s cost-bill were included two items of costs for attorneys’ fees. A motion to tax the costs was made by plaintiff. At the hearing the items of attorneys’ fees were stricken out of the cost-bill and as to all other items it was allowed. Defendant appeals from so much of…
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