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This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff as assignee of Meserve & Meserve, attorneys at law, for a balance due of attorney’s fees for services rendered by Edwin A. Meserve to defendant corporation. The complaint alleged that defendant employed Edwin A. Meserve and Shirley E. Meserve as its attorneys to represent said defendant in all proceedings connected with and growing out of the Broadway opening proceedings in the city of Los Angeles, soon after said pro-, ceedings were initiated in the spring of 3.913; that the said Edwin A. Meserve and Shirley E. Meserve, and particularly the said Edwin A. Meserve, under said employment rendered services for said defendant in various proceedings before the city council of Los Angeles and in various actions commenced in the superior court of Los Angeles County, some of which were appealed to the district court of appeal and to the supreme court of the state of California; that the said services so rendered were and are of the reasonable value of $32,500, which said sum the defendant agreed to pay therefor; that no part of said sum has been paid other than the sum of $6,250, which was paid by said defendant…