Young v. McFadden

— There is evidence tending to prove that the appellant employed the appellee to defend her husband, who was at the time in jail charged with having committed a crime, and that in payment of the fee agreed upon she executed the promissory note upon which the complaint is founded. The evidence also shows that the husband signed the note. The trial court instructed the jury as follows:

*255“ It was competent for the defendant Mrs. Young, for herself, to enter into a contract with the plaintiff McFadden to defend her husband frond the charge then alleged to be pending against him, and to execute a'…