In re Stoddard

We think respondent was guilty of such unprofessional conduct as to justify discipline. We credit him with the right to protect his interests in tbe mortgaged property and with the motive so to do in the foreclosure proceeding; but in the steps which he took we think he exceeded the bounds of propriety and resorted to methods and to acts which were censurable. From first to last he sought and by deceptively drawn affidavits often succeeded in inducing the court to believe that the several purchasers were independent of the respondent and of each other and were not mere dummies acting as…