State Ex Rel. Crumpacker v. LaPorte Circuit Court

Relator, a lawyer, brought this original action. He claims that the respondent court made two orders against him without jurisdiction of his person or of the subject matter and moves this Court to require the respondent court to expunge them.

The orders were made on March 24, 1975, and April 29, 1975. The first order required relator, as a condition of his withdrawal as counsel for a party in a civil suit, to deliver his files relating to the case to his former clients and to return funds advanced by them on his contingent attorney fee together with unused funds advanced for pre-trial…