Stroud v. Toland

This is .an action of debt by Mrs. Ada Stroud, joined pro forma by her husband, Lee R. Stroud, against Mrs. Oassie Toland. From an adverse judgment, Stroud and wife prosecute this appeal.

Mr. Stroud was, at the inception of the transactions from which this claim originated, a practicing attorney at Kaufman, Tex., and was employed by Mrs. Toland, who had recently separated from her husband, J. J. Toland, to render certain legal services incident to the separation as disclosed by the written contract entered into at the time, which, after a rather lengthy preamble, reads as follows:

“I hereby…