Gehr v. Breckons

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

PERRY, J.

This is an action on the case. The main allegations of the declaration are that defendant, an attorney at law, was employed by plaintiff (a) to receive on her behalf the sum of $5500 which one Davies had agreed to pay her for an assignment of certain leases and rents, (b) to deliver to Davies the instrument of assignment, (c) out of the money collected to pay the Hilo Mercantile Company not exceeding $60 and to retain as compensation for his services the sum of $250 and (d) to forward the balancé of $5190 to plaintiff at Seattle in the State of Washington; that…