Oregon Supreme Court March 3, 1908 (Richardson v. City of Salem)

Mr. Justice Eakin

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff brought this action in the justice’s court against the defendant to recover $50 as the reasonable compensation for services rendered to the city at its special instance and request, in examining and checking over that part of the new books of the city treasurer of the defendant from January, 1899, to January, 1904, and in preparing