In re Somers

Respondent was admitted to practice in 1926. The charges arose out of the respondent’s part in a business arrangement whereby he issued to a business associate 23 checks signed by him in blank and drawn on a closed account of a corporation of which he was the president. Such checks were to be exhibited to third parties to lead them to believe that the respondent’s associate had buyers for stamps which he sought to purchase from those parties when in fact there were no such prospective buyers. The checks were never used for the purpose intended but instead the associate completed them in…