Walsh v. Kunnes

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff is appealing from a judgment dismissing her suit on an exception of no cause of action. The suit is for possession of a promissory note which the plaintiff alleges was entrusted by her to an attorney at law for collection. She avers that, at a time unknown to her, but known to the defendant, Sam Kunnes, the attorney fraudulently converted the note to his own use and transferred it to Kunnes in fraud of her rights, and that she does not know, but that Kunnes knows, what consideration if any was received by the attorney for the note.

The reason why the judge…