Nash

This is an action against the City of Los Angeles and the members of its Board of Public Works to recover the sum of $7,781.34 upon three rejected claims for personal services alleged to have been performed by plaintiff for the city. A demurrer to the complaint, and to each of the five counts set forth therein, upon the ground of insufficiency of facts, was sustained, with leave to amend, and plaintiff, having declined to amend, judgment of dismissal was entered. Plaintiff appeals.

In the first two counts it is alleged that between October 1, 1918, and December 1, 1922, plaintiff performed the duties and rendered the services of 88senior cost accountant” of said city, for "which he was entitled to compensation in the sum of $9,716.80, the only difference between the causes of action stated in these counts being that in the first one the claim for compensation is based upon a classification of employment established by municipal ordinances enacted pursuant to authority granted by the civil service provisions of the city charter, standardizing the salaries of the city employees; and in the second count the claim for such compensation is based upon a quantum meniit. In the third and…