Wooldridge v. Bradbury

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

On July 27,1910, appellant, Mary E. Wooldridge, and her husband, Webster C. Wooldridge, who was her agent, entered into a written contract with the appellees, O. P. Bradbury and the firm of Popham, Trusty and Webster1, who were practicing attorneys, whereby she employed them to prosecute certain claims and causes of action which she insisted were due her from one Gr. S. Patterson, and to obtain a settlement of the Shepherdsville Merchandise Company, a business firm owned by Mrs. Wooldridge and Patterson, with a small interest owned by the latter’s…