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Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In the Matter of the Application of Brooklyn Bar Association in Respect of Jacob P. Nathanson, an Attorney and Counselor at Law.
   The decision of the court is that the respondent he suspended for one year and that he be required to repay $500 to his client within thirty days. If the amount be not repaid within that time the respondent will be disbarred. The court finds as a fact that the $500 was not a part of the respondent’s fee. Young, Hagarty, Carswell and Tompkins, JJ., concur; Lazansky, P. J., dissents, with the following memorandum: That bail was furnished before complainant was released from jail; that complainant took no steps to assert his claims while in prison for nine months and for nearly a year thereafter; that complainant’s mentality had been questioned, and other circumstances in the case east such a doubt upon the charge that the insistence of respondent that the entire amount was a fee should be accepted despite the fact, that the fee may have been excessive.