People ex rel. Healy v. Thornton

This is an information filed in this court by John J. Healy, as State’s attorney for Cook county, acting in conjunction with John F. Holland and other attorneys, who constitute the grievance committee of the Chicago Bar Association, praying that the license of William P. Thornton as an attorney of this court be revoked.

The charges set forth in the information divide themselves substantially under three heads:

First—That respondent, who had theretofore had considerable professional connection with the insurance department of the State and with Fred H. Rowe, attorney for that department, entered…