Blinn

In the action which gives rise to this appeal, which was originally filed in the Municipal Court of the City of Los Angeles, the complaint is cast in the form of a common count alleging that the plaintiff! had performed certain services “for and at the request of the defendants” and the reasonable value thereof. The title of the action, as it appears in the caption of the complaint, reads as follows: “Irving L. Blinn, Plaintiff, vs. James Bitchie and Joseph F. Knopf, individually, James Bitchie and Joseph F. Knopf, copartners doing business under the fictitious name and style of Walnut Park Lumber Company. ’ ’

Judgment for four hundred dollars was ordered “in favor of the plaintiff Irving L. Blinn, and against the defendants, James Bitchie and Joseph F. Knopf, individually, and James Bitchie and Joseph F. Knopf, copartners, doing business under the fictitious name and style of Walnut Park Lumber Company.”

Upon an appeal taken by the defendants to the Superior Court in and for the County of Los Angeles, the judgment of the Municipal Court was affirmed. From this judgment of affirmation by the Superior Court this appeal is taken by “Joseph F. Knopf, James Bitchie and Joseph F.…