Knight v. City of Eureka

Citations

• 123 Cal. 192
• 55 P. 768
• 1898 Cal. LEXIS 1012

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Coepoeation—Power op Oity Council—Employment of Attorneys—Delegation op Power.—A city council has power to employ one or more attorneys other than the city attorney to represent the interests of the city in an action to which it is a party, and the council may authorize an attorney employed by it as its agent to engage associate counsel named by the supervisors, if the council exercises its own judgment in determining, that the employment of such associate counsel was necessary: but the council cannot delegate to the attorney employed by it, the power or authority to retain another attorney, not named by them, “if, in his judgment, it becomes necessary.”</p>