Lewis v. Gardiner

This is an appeal from a judgment of $250 in an action filed by the assignee of a claim against a bail bondsman. Appellant as a condition for posting bond to obtain the release of one David Clark, while awaiting trial on an armed robbery indictment, had received from Clark's mother a deed to real estate and the sum of $500 to be returned to her when the conditions of the bond were satisfied. She, in turn, assigned her right to such $500 to a lawyer — appellee herein — as consideration for his defending the son at trial. Appellant acknowledged the assignment by signing and returning a copy of…