Watson

This action was instituted by plaintiff to recover from the defendant the sum of $5,743.13 alleged to be due from said defendant for - earned premiums on certain policies of public liability and workmen’s compensation insurance issued by plaintiff in which defendant was named as the insured and for charges made by plaintiff for the execution of a considerable number of bid bonds and contract bonds for and on behalf of defendant. At all times material to the present action defendant was a co-partnership engaged in general contracting business in the county of San Diego. Included in the complaint and forming a part thereof is a schedule of the various charges made by plaintiff for its services in issuing the aforesaid policies and bonds. This schedule comprises 75 different items specifying the date on which each bond was executed and each policy of insurance was issued and the charge made for each such bond or policy. Defendant’s answer denied that the aforesaid sum was due to plaintiff. On the same date on which defendant’s answer was filed, there was filed on defendant’s behalf by its counsel an offer to confess judgment in the sum of $1743.13. This offer was not accepted by…