Davidson

The action was brought as upon a quantum meruit for services rendered by the plaintiff to the *866 defendant at his request in negotiating the exchange and purchase of certain real estate in the city of Los Angeles, supervising the construction of the six-story brick building erected by defendant in said city, and in hiring and discharging laborers, paying bills, and acting generally as the agent of said defendant, between the first day of October, 1896, and the twenty-sixth day of July, 1898; and it is alleged that said services were reasonably worth the sum of $3,550, and that only $500 of the same had been paid. In the second count of the complaint it is alleged that after the said plaintiff had been in the employ of the defendant for some time, and while the said six-story building was in process of construction, in consideration of the defendant’s promising to employ the plaintiff permanently as the agent of said defendant in the management of said building, and collecting the rents and attending to the repairs thereof, the plaintiff agreed to accept the sum of $60 per month for his services prior to the time that the tenants of the building began to pay rent, and that after…