Scrivner v. Woodward

On October 1, 1895, plaintiff, an attorney at law, executed to defendant his promissory note for five hundred dollars, and pledged to her, as collateral security for the payment thereof, two one-thousand-dollar gold bonds of the California and Nevada Railroad Company, belonging to him, and defendant delivered to him a writing signed by her, stating that she received the bonds as collateral security for such payment.

In January, 1896, defendant employed plaintiff to defend her in an action to which she was a party, then pending in court, and in August, 1896, orally agreed that, in consideration…