Goss Printing Press Co. v. Todd
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on May 18, 1908, and supported by affidavits, against an attorney at law, alleging among other things the respondent’s relation of attorney to the petitioner existed through a substantial period of time and that he was a member of the bar of the Commonwealth, that he collected as such attorney large sums of money from the petitioner’s debtor and failed to pay them over to the petitioner, that he admitted to the…
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Petition, filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk on May 18, 1908, and supported by affidavits, against an attorney at law, alleging among other things the respondent’s relation of attorney to the petitioner existed through a substantial period of time and that he was a member of the bar of the Commonwealth, that he collected as such attorney large sums of money from the petitioner’s debtor and failed to pay them over to the petitioner, that he admitted to the petitioner’s agents that he had lost in speculation on Ms own account #8,000 of the sums so collected and that he had…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The prayer of the petition in this case is as follows : “Wherefore, on the facts set forth in this petition, upon the affidavits and statements hereunto annexed, whereby it appears that the said Todd, while acting as attorney for your petitioner, has misappropriated and failed to pay over certain funds collected by him as such attorney, belonging to your petitioner, your petitioner prays for an order and decree of this court, ordering and directing the said Todd to pay to your petitioner, or to its attorneys in this present proceeding, the sum of $5,000 together with the interest thereon from…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Commonwealth v. National Contracting Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
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- Rey v. BrownMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1976