In re Simpkins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Application on the report of official referee upon charges against the respondent, an attorney and counselor at law, for professional misconduct.
1Per curiam
The charges against the respondent were preferred by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and referred to an official referee who has reported that the charges have been sustained.
Briefly stated these charges are, First, that the respondent settled a judgment without authority and against the expressed wishes of his clients, and on terms to which they refused to agree; and second, that he converted to his own use $1,500 which he had received in settlement of the judgment and which his clients refused to accept.
In the month of November, 1901, Clara M. Clinton recovered a…
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