People ex rel. Cutler v. Ford

Citations

• 54 Ill. 520

Syllabus

<p>Attobbey at law—mat-conduct in office. An attorney at law obtained a sum of money from a person, on his representation that the latter had title to a certain tract of land, which, the attorney stated, was in a high state of cultivation, had valuable improvements upon it, and was worth $15,000, and representing that the money was required to refund taxes which had been paid by the party in adverse possession, before suit could be commenced. He afterwards attempted to get more money, on his statement that he had ■ commenced suit for the land, and that a larger amount of taxes had been paid than he supposed. On investigation, it was found all these representations were false, and made for the purpose of cheating the party out of his money, which the attorney refused to return. This was held to be the grossest mal-conduct in office, on the part of the attorney, and his name was stricken from the roll.</p>