People ex rel. Scholes v. Keithley

This is a proceeding to disbar Arthur Keithley, who was licensed to practice by this court in 1883. The information presented by the State’s attorney of Peoria county charges respondent with illegal, immoral and unprofessional conduct in connection with a number of transactions, or a series of transactions, with different clients. These several charges of misconduct are designated by the commissioner to whom this case was referred, in his report, and by the counsel, as “cases,” distinguishing them by the name of the party concerned, although, strictly speaking, they were not all cases in…