Hille

The plaintiff was awarded judgment for the sum of $2,391.41, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent per annum from the date of said judgment, on account of and for professional services alleged to have been performed by plaintiff’s assignor as attorney for defendant in a certain action tried and prosecuted to judgment in the superior court of Sacramento County, wherein the defendant herein was plaintiff and August DeBock, his wife Clara E. DeBock and Millie Fisher were defendants.

The defendant appeals from the judgment upon a record prepared in pursuance of section 953a of the Code of Civil Procedure.

On the fourteenth day of July, 1915, the defendant and appellant (then known as and called Catherine M. DeBock) and P. H. Johnson, an attorney and counselor- at law,, entered into a written contract, by the terms of which said Johnson, for a certain contingent consideration, agreed to perform for defendant certain professional services in the action, above named, in which the defendant as plaintiff sued the DeBocks and said Fisher for damages “for alienating the affections of the husband of defendant.’’ Omitting the preamble or the explanatory language therefrom, the…