City of Los Angeles v. Abbott

In an action in eminent domain instituted by the City of Los Angeles, a municipal corporation, wherein the respondent was, among others, named as a defendant, all proceedings and expenditures of moneys were subsequently enjoined by the decree of a co-ordinate court in another suit. Respondent thereafter moved to dismiss this action as though the same had been abandoned, within the purview of sections 1255 and 1255a of the Code of Civil Procedure. Said motion was granted, and he thereupon filed a “memorandum of costs and disbursements”, which included an item entitled “attorneys’ fees…