Abslag v. Bock

The plaintiff, Eleanor M. Abslag, furnished money to the defendant, John V. Bock, for investment, from 1915 to 1922. Trusting him, she never received any accounting prior to the present suits. In the meantime, a third party had sued him and, in other suits, both him and her in the superior court of King county, to recover money judgments. Upon his persuasion and insistence, she allowed him to have charge of the litigation on their side, with the final result that all of those suits were compromised, settled and paid by him for a comparatively small amount—much less, indeed, than the amount…