People Ex Rel. Chicago Bar Ass'n v. Johnson

Relator, the Chicago Bar Association, by leave of this court, at the December, 1926, term, filed an information for disbarment against respondent. The charge in the information was, that in the summer of 1919, during the occurrence known as the race riot in Chicago, Frank Fitzgerald, a negro, was seriously injured; that thereafter Fitzgerald employed respondent as his attorney, under a contingent arrangement as to fees, to prosecute his claim against the city of Chicago for damages because of such injury; that the arrangement or agreement between them was that respondent was to prosecute the…