holding an attorney commingled estate funds with his own when he paid himself under the auspices of what he considered due to him without court approval
How later courts described this case
- holding an attorney commingled estate funds with his own when he paid himself under the auspices of what he considered due to him without court approval
- attorney suspended for six months for commingling and simple conversion when the attorney paid herself legal fees from an estate without court approval
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
¶ 59 WATT, C. J.,
concurring in part; dissenting in part.
I would impose a lesser degree of discipline upon the respondent.