People ex rel. Healy v. Macauley
Illinois Supreme Court
Information to disbar. The State’s attorney of Cook county filed an information in this court for the disbarment of the respondent, Charles P. R. Macauley, who was enrolled as an attorney on June 7, Igoo. The cause was referred to a commissioner to take the evidence and report his conclusions of law and fact, and this has been done.
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Information to disbar. The State’s attorney of Cook county filed an information in this court for the disbarment of the respondent, Charles P. R. Macauley, who was enrolled as an attorney on June 7, Igoo. The cause was referred to a commissioner to take the evidence and report his conclusions of law and fact, and this has been done. For several years prior to the year igoo the Colliery Engineer Company, a Pennsylvania corporation, had been conducting a school under the name of “The International Correspondence Schools of Scranton, Pennsylvania.” Instruction was by correspondence through the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Dunn
The substance of the charge against the respondent is, that having discovered what he regarded as a defect in the charter of the Colliery Engineer Company, he organized a conspiracy to harass that company and to embarrass its business by organizing corporations having its name or the name in which its business was transacted, apparently for the purpose of conducting a similar business but really for the sole purpose of injuring the business of the Colliery Engineer Company and extorting money from it. The commissioner has found that charge is proved, and no exception having been taken to…
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