In Re Disbarment of George P. Gurley

Proceeding by the state board of law examiners for the discipline of George P. Gurley, an attorney at law, who has answered. The facts have been stipulated.

In October, 1927, counsel was employed by a client to purchase for her a certain promissory note and real estate mortgage securing the same on North Dakota land and upon which there was unpaid the sum of $423.40. The papers were im the hands of a firm of lawyers in North Dakota representing the owner. Counsel phoned to the North Dakota lawyers, and it was agreed that the mortgage would be bought by his client. He thereupon wrote the North…