In re Trainor
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Appeal by Joseph L. Young from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the' county of New York on the 22d day of May, 1911, directing the appellant, an attorney, to answer certain questions propounded to him as a witness before the referee in the above-entitled proceeding.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
Hugh F. Trainor heretofore commenced a proceeding to compel Burton W. Gibson, an attorney, to account for and pay over to him the sum of $25,000 which he alleged said attorney obtained from him , through fraud and misrepresentation, and has misapplied. This money the petitioner says' was .procured through the use of his signature to papers which he, being illiterate, signed upon the representations of said attorney (then acting for him) that they were papers’ required to be signed by him for. the defense of an .action brought by one Finis R. Montgomery against him to recover'…
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