Wilkins v. Jordan

A prisoner filed a verified petition in the superior court against an attorney at law, to require an accounting for $725.50, the' proceeds of a government bonus check which the petitioner alleged he had endorsed and delivered to the defendant upon an agreement that the defendant would, for a $200 fee, obtain a pardon for the petitioner immediately or within a year. The petition states that it is brought under the Civil Code (1910), §§ 4954, 5341, and 5342. It prays for a rule nisi and rule absolute requiring that the defendant account for the monies, pay the same to the petitioner, or in…