Paff

This is an appeal from the judgment in the plaintiff’s favor and from an order denying the defendants’ motion for a new trial.

The action was brought to recover the sum of $1,154.80, alleged to be due as architects’ fees for the drawing of plans and specifications for a building to be erected upon premises of the defendants, and for taking bids upon the same.

It was the contention of the defendants at the trial of the cause that whatever work the plaintiffs may have done in the premises was authorized and ordered, not by the defendants, but by one H. B. Peterson, whom the plaintiffs claim to have been an authorized agent of the defendants, but concerning whom defendants contend such relation of agency was not sufficiently proven.

The facts of the case upon which the plaintiffs relied for their recovery are substantially these: In the year 1907 the defendants were the holders under a long lease of a certain vacant lot in the city and county of San Francisco, upon which there was at the time a sign to the effect that they would build to suit a tenant, which sign bore the name “B. B. Peterson, Real Estate,” and which, one of the defendants testified, had been placed there under…