Opinion ID: 2019475
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: rosalie ewers matter

Text: In the spring of 1959 the respondent was retained by Martha Ewers to represent her in connection with a claim for personal injuries which her minor daughter, Rosalie, had sustained in an automobile accident. The respondent settled this claim for $8,000. In the order approving settlement dated May 20, 1959, the court provided that the sum of $5,629.93 be deposited by the mother in a savings account in a bank in behalf of the minor child. Instead of depositing the money as provided by order of court, the respondent wrote a letter to Mrs. Ewers advising that the sum has been invested in stock bearing interest at six percent per annum. As a matter of fact, no investment of any kind was made by the respondent for the benefit of the minor child. From the findings it appears that the respondent repaid the money in full sometime between May 1960 and December 1960.