Goad v. Hart

The appeal is from the judgment and from the order denying a new trial. Defendant Hart, on February 24, 1892, executed to plaintiff Goad a written contract, wherein, for value received and for services rendered by the said Goad, the defendant assigned to him ten thousand dollars of his fee in the Blythe estate contest, “the ten thousand dollars to be paid out of the first moneys collected on my fee." At the time of the execution of this contract there was existing between the defendant Hart and James Crisp Perry, guardian of the person and estate of Florence Blythe, who was at that time a…