In Re Backes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

William J. Brennan, Jr., J.

The respondent is charged with a willful and knowing attempt to perpetrate a fraud upon the courts of this State in the initiation and conduct of a divorce action on behalf of one Earlin Dillard.

Dillard was living with one Lillian Dillard in 1946 when respondent sold Dillard a house in Yauxhall, Union County, through a corporation, Orange Land Company, solely owned by respondent. A purchase money mortgage for $4,000 was taken by respondent in the name of the Company. Seven years later, in 1953, respondent, through the…