In re Temple
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Information, filed in this court, under the provisions of Gen. St. 1878, c. 88, §§ 19-31, charging J. A. Temple, an attorney-at-law, with wilful misconduct in his profession. Answer was made, and the matter heard on these pleadings and testimony taken by a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Mitchell, J.1
The facts in this matter, as they appear to us from the evidence, are as follows: A Mrs. Dickinson placed in the hands of Temple, as her attorney, for collection, certain promissory notes against a Mrs. O’Neil, a boarding-house keeper. Temple agreed with Mrs. O’Neil that if she would furnish board to his law partner, one Goss, that he would apply and indorse the amount as payment upon *344these notes. While the evidence does not, perhaps, warrant us in finding that Temple expressly represented to Mrs. O’Neil that he had authority from his client to accept this in payment of the…
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