MATTER OF KAPLAN (BLUMENFELD)


8 N.Y.2d 214 (1960)

In the Matter of Louis I. Kaplan, as Commissioner of Investigation of the City of New York, Respondent. Julius Blumenfeld, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided July 8, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monroe J. Winsten for appellant.

Charles H. Tenney, Corporation Counsel (Beatrice Shainswit and Seymour B. Quel of counsel), for respondent.

Judges DYE, FULD, FROESSEL, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE and FOSTER concur.


Chief Judge DESMOND.

By the order appealed from appellant, a lawyer, has been committed to jail (Civ. Prac. Act, § 406) until he shall tell respondent New York City Commissioner of Investigation the name of the client who gave appellant certain information which the latter turned over to the Commissioner. The facts are tersely stated in the Special Term opinion: "It appears that respondent is an attorney...

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