EARHART v. WILLIAM LOW CO.

Docket No. L.A. 30993.

25 Cal.3d 503 (1979)

600 P.2d 1344

158 Cal. Rptr. 887

FAYETTE L. EARHART, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WILLIAM LOW COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

October 22, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Robert C. Coates, Eichhorn, Fielden, Wetherbee & Coates and Gregory S. Day for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Norvin L. Grauf for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

TOBRINER, J.

In this case we must determine whether a party who expends funds and performs services at the request of another, under the reasonable belief that the requesting party will compensate him for such services, may recover in quantum meruit although the expenditures and services do not directly benefit property owned by the requesting party.

In the instant case, plaintiff asserts that, at defendant's request...

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