In re Whitridge

Ingraham, P. J.:

The petitioner has presented to this court charges against the respondents of professional misconduct, in that in the year 1891 he employed as his counsel and attorneys at law the firm of which the defendants are the surviving members, to assist him in organizing a corporation to exploit and do the business of mortgage insurance on a plan devised and planned by the petitioner, and on which the petitioner had spent several years’ labor, and that the said persons did willfully neglect, betray, and defraud the petitioner out of the fruit of his toil and skill, and they instead…