MATTER OF SOMERS


12 A.D.2d 9 (1960)

In the Matter of Morris Somers, an Attorney, Respondent. Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Petitioner

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

December 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond P. Whearty of counsel (Eric Nightingale, attorney), for petitioner.

Daniel H. Greenberg for respondent.

BREITEL, J. P., RABIN, VALENTE and BERGAN, JJ., concur.


Per Curiam.

Respondent was admitted to practice in 1926. The charges arose out of the respondent's part in a business arrangement whereby he issued to a business associate 23 checks signed by him in blank and drawn on a closed account of a corporation of which he was the president. Such checks were to be exhibited to third parties to lead them to believe that the respondent's associate had buyers for stamps which he sought to purchase from those parties when...

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