Case Name: In the Matter of the Application of Brooklyn Bar Association in Respect of Jacob P. Nathanson, an Attorney and Counselor at Law
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1931-06
Citations: 233 A.D. 854
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the Application of Brooklyn Bar Association in Respect of Jacob P. Nathanson, an Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 233
Pages: 854–854

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the Application of Brooklyn Bar Association in Respect of Jacob P. Nathanson, an Attorney and Counselor at Law.

Opinion:
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.