In re Downes

Clarke, P. J.:

The respondent was admitted to the bar in 1905 at a term of the Appellate Division of the First Department and is now practicing in the First Judicial District.

The petition alleges that he has been guilty of misconduct as an attorney at law in that in May, 1915, an action was commenced in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church in the City of New York; the nominal petitioner in the action was one Carl Ekman, a non-resident who claimed to sue by virtue of powers of attorney and other…