LAWRENCE v. CITY OF CONCORD

Docket No. 17371.

156 Cal.App.2d 531 (1958)

320 P.2d 215

S.C. LAWRENCE et al., Respondents, v. CITY OF CONCORD et al., Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

January 6, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. McBride, City Attorney, Bray, Baldwin & Ogden, John B. Ogden, Francis W. Collins, District Attorney (Contra Costa), and Charles L. Hemmings, Deputy District Attorney, for Appellants.

Hoey, Hoey, Hall & Conti, Sam W. Hall, Tinning & DeLap and Robert Eshleman for Respondents.


DRAPER, J.

Plaintiffs brought this action to recover money paid under protest to the city of Concord, and for a declaration that the contract under which the payment was demanded is void. In 1953, the three corporate defendants, referred to in the contract as "Developers," proposed to subdivide an area within defendant city. On September 25, 1953, they entered into a written contract with defendant city and defendant county of Contra Costa. This contract recites that...

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