In re Doody

Respondent was admitted to the bar as an attorney and counselor at law at a term of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Second Department, in March, 1897, and has practiced as such since his admission. He is charged with the following misconduct:

That in August, 1924, Grace McLaughlin, of Apollo, Penn., retained him to collect certain money deposited in the office of the chamberlain of the city of New York as surplus money in an action to foreclose a mortgage on real property in which she had an interest; that respondent agreed to give her $150 of any *16money collected by him in her…