Gudger v. Manton

— Plaintiff and respondent, Francis Gudger, was awarded compensatory damages in the sum of $16,000 in an action for slander of title to real property against all of the defendants, except defendant, Harry G. Sadicoff, judgment being given in favor of him. Defendant Pugh alone prosecutes this appeal therefrom.

In 1932, defendant Mantón obtained a judgment for $40,166.45 in New York against plaintiff’s wife arising out of a premarital tort. Appellant Pugh, a New York attorney, not admitted to practice in California, was Mantón’s counsel in that action. Her compensation arrangement was a 40 per…