In re McNally

The applicant, Chester William McNally, was convicted in the Court of Special Sessions of the crime of exacting from one Abraham Sonne, an attorney, the sum of $900 as a condition for the settlement of a fraudulent claim made by Sonne on behalf of a client against the Yorkshire Indemnity Company, of which Mr. McNally was general counsel. The conviction of McNally was affirmed by this court in 249 Appellate Division, 733, and by the Court of Appeals in 275 New York, 457.

In an opinion in the subsequent McNally disciplinary proceeding (252 App. Div. 550) this court said: “ Notwithstanding the…