Young v. Polack

Citations

• 3 Cal. 208

Syllabus

<p>Plaintiff and defendant took a joint lease for improving certain property; plaintiff, with consent of defendant, made, in his own name, a contract to make the improvements stipulated by the lease, which he performed, and paid or advanced all the expenses out of his own funds. This contract was drawn by defendant himself. Plaintiff claimed damage of defendant for the failure to advance funds on his part, as the buildings advanced, and the value of the buildings erected by him (the plaintiff).</p> <p>The court below decreed that the plaintiff recover equal contribution of the money advanced by him, from the defendant, with three per cent, per month interest, the then current rate; which decree was affirmed by the Supreme Court;</p>