Barlow

San Joaquin Light & Power Co. v. Barlow

Good Law
1919 Cal. App. LEXIS 773·43 Cal. App. 241·184 P. 899
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaSeptember 8, 1919Civ. No. 2294.California761 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

Conrey, J.

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover the sum of $655.20 upon a common count for the alleged reasonable value of electric current delivered by plaintiff to the defendant. From a judgment awarding the demanded sum of money the defendant appeals.

The plaintiff introduced in evidence certain correspondence between the parties, constituting a contract which authorized the plaintiff to deliver electricity and to charge therefor at a stated rate. The evidence further shows that a stated quantity of electric current was delivered, and that the amount due therefor, when computed in the manner and at the rate named in the contract, is the sum demanded in this action. Simpson, a clerk whose duty it was to compute charges from meter readings brought into plaintiff’s office, testified for the plaintiff, and stated that the several charges made were reasonable charges for the service rendered.

The errors claimed and relied upon, as we glean them from the briefs of appellant’s counsel, are as follows: (1) That the letters were not admissible to prove a contract price, because the plaintiff’s complaint counts upon reasonable value and not upon a contract price; (2) That the court erred…

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