In re Tinney

Clarke, P. J.:

The respondent in July, 1879, was admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law at a General Term of the Supreme Court held in the county of Dutchess and was practicing as such in the First Judicial District at the time he committed the acts complained of. The charge orginally presented was in substance that in an action instituted by Rogers, Peet & Co. against Carpenters’ Trade Journal, Inc., for the recovery of rent due from defendant under a written lease the respondent as attorney for the defendant prepared and caused to be verified and filed an answer which he…