Davis

Action by plaintiffs to recover from the defendant the reasonable value of services rendered by plaintiffs for defendant, at his instance and request as architects, in preparing plans and specifications for two buildings, one a one-story building and the other a three-story building. Plaintiffs had judgment for the sum of $1,950. From .this judgment the defendant appeals.

It appears from the transcript that the defendant, the owner of a lot of land situate at one of the corners of Channel and California Streets, in the city of Stockton, applied to the plaintiffs for the preparation of plans for the construction of a one-story building, and after the plans and specifications for the one-story building had been completed, the defendant, conceiving the idea that the erection of a three-story building would produce a greater revenue, directed the plaintiffs to prepare plans and specifications for a three-story building, the lower story to be used for store purposes, and the two upper floors to be used as a hotel and that, in pursuance of such directions, the plaintiffs entered upon the preparation of plans for a three-story building. It further appears that no specific directions…