Credit Clearance Bureau v. Guaranty Loan Co.

The plaintiff commenced an action against the defendant to recover, as assignee, on a claim for legal services rendered by the plaintiff’s assignor. The plaintiff pleaded its cause of action in two counts, the first count an agreed value of $1,000, and the second count pleaded a reasonable value of $1,000. On the trial of the ease Fabius T. Finch, plaintiff’s assignor, was called to the stand as the plaintiff’s first witness. He stated in detail the circumstances of his employment and the services which he rendered to the defendant. From his testimony it appeared that he was employed by J. W. Treadwell orally at a time when Mr. Treadwell was the president, a director, and general manager of the defendant corporation. The services rendered consisted of the advice given and also services per formed in maintaining an action to establish the title of the defendant to the Hotel Wilson, which is located at Mason and Eddy Streets, in San Francisco. After the case had been finally terminated Mr. Finch and Mr. Treadwell agreed upon the amount of the fee, and set the figure at $1000. The witness further gave testimony of and concerning the reasonable value of the services which he had…