People ex rel. Deneen v. Pickler
Illinois Supreme Court
Original information for disbarment. This is an information, filed in this court by Charles S. Deneen, State’s attorney for Cook county, in behalf of the People of the State upon the relation of the grievance committee of the bar association of Chicago against the respondent, Charles Pickler, an attorney and counselor at law, licensed as such under the rules of this court and the law of the State, charging the said Pickler with unprofessional, dishonorable and scandalous…
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Original information for disbarment. This is an information, filed in this court by Charles S. Deneen, State’s attorney for Cook county, in behalf of the People of the State upon the relation of the grievance committee of the bar association of Chicago against the respondent, Charles Pickler, an attorney and counselor at law, licensed as such under the rules of this court and the law of the State, charging the said Pickler with unprofessional, dishonorable and scandalous conduct, calculated to bring the courts of justice into disrepute and contempt and to tarnish the good name of the legal…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Magruder
First—It is charged' in the information, that the respondent, Charles Pickler, who was licensed by this court on October 22,1894, as an attorney and counselor at law, has been guilty of filing in the several courts of Cook county false, fictitious, forg'ed and worthless appeal bonds in sundry and divers suits and actions.
There can be no doubt, that it is professional misconduct in a lawyer to perfect appeals on worthless or straw bonds. When a lawyer induces a court to enter an order, allowing an appeal, by presenting an appeal bond with sureties, whom he knows to be worthless or fictitious…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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