In re the Proceedings for the Discipline of Foster

During the month of May, 1950, the Washington state bar association, after investigation, charged Howard E. Foster, a member of the bar of this state since January 23, 1901, respondent herein, with violation of his duties as an attorney at law, the complaint alleging that:

In the month of August, 1945, Roy F. Arnold, who had been convicted of a felony and was then confined in the Washington state penitentiary at Walla Walla, employed respondent to institute a habeas corpus proceeding on his behalf. Arnold, upon the security of some leather articles which he owned, borrowed six hundred dollars…