HEALY v. BREWSTER

Docket No. L.A. 26464.

59 Cal.2d 455 (1963)

380 P.2d 817

30 Cal. Rptr. 129

P.J. HEALY et al., Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants, v. GERALD E. BREWSTER, Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 25, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Garibaldi, Warren J. Lane and Abe Mutchnik for Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, Lloyd S. Davis, Deputy County Counsel, Samuel Gorlick, City Attorney (Burbank), Eldon V. Soper, Assistant City Attorney, Robert E. Reed, Harry S. Fenton, Kingsley T. Hoegstedt, Orrin F. Finch and William S. Ashton, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs, Cross-defendants and Appellants.

R.H. Reeve, Enright, Elliott & Betz, Joseph T. Enright and Norman Elliott for Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.

Leon J. Garrie as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant, Cross-complainant and Respondent.


McCOMB, J.

Plaintiffs and cross-defendants (hereinafter referred to as "appellants"1), after trial before a jury, appeal from a judgment in the sum of $61,108.05, plus $16,000 for attorneys' fees as an item of costs, entered in favor of defendant and cross-complainant (hereinafter referred to as "respondent") in an action to recover on a construction subcontract.

[1a] Facts: August 26, 1958, appellants entered...

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