People ex rel. Healy v. Pattison

An information was filed against the respondent for his disbarment for having appropriated to his own use and failed to pay to his client money collected for the latter.

The respondent was admitted to the bar in June, 1892. He was then, and for some years afterwards, engaged in teaching and did not begin the practice of his profession until 1902, when he engaged in the collection business. In December, 1902, the Columbia Shade Cloth Company, through its agent, delivered to him for collection an account against L. Tozer 8c Son, of San Francisco, for $2973.41. Through a correspondent in San…