Wayland v. City of Chicago

Appellant, by this appeal, attacks the jurisdiction of the "Executive Committee" of the circuit court of Cook county to suspend him from the practice of law in that court. There was first filed before that committee a petition charging appellant with contumacious conduct before the Hon. Wm. J. Wimbiscus sitting as a circuit judge in the trial of a suit entitledWayland v. City of Chicago. Appellant was the trial attorney for the plaintiff in that case. A jury returned a verdict for $35,000 in favor of the plaintiff and against the city. Pending a motion for a new trial Barnet Hodes,…