In re Peterson
New York Court of Chancery
This was a proceeding in which W. V. L. Peterson, one of the solicitors of this court, was removed from his office of . . solicitor. The causes of his removal are stated m the opinion of the chancellor. The court had previously directed a copy of an order to show cause, and copies of the papers containing the charges against the solicitor, to be served on him personally.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
A petition was presented jn this case, and accompanied by other evidence, showing that W. V. L. Peterson, one of the solicitors of this court, had been guilty of forging the name of J. Rhoades, as deputy register, to a paper purporting to be a copy of a decree, obtained on the application of Peterson, as solicitor, sanctioning an agreement for a separation which had been entered into between Baird, the petitioner, and his wife; and declaring their marriage void.
And if the allegations of the petitioner, as sworn to in his petition, are true, this fictitious decree was palmed off…
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