Legal Opinion
Matter of Donegan
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 5, 1940PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFinch, J.
The decision in this case involves the interpretation of section 88 of the Judiciary Law (Cons. Laws, ch. 30), which provides for the summary and irrevocable disbarment of an attorney in consequence of his conviction of a felony.
As a result of the collapse of the guaranteed mortgage companies in the city of New York in 1933, appellant was indicted and convicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York of the crime of conspiracy to use the mails to defraud. (U. S. Code, tit. 18, | 88.) The conviction has been affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of…
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