APPEAL COURT.
[Per United Press Association.]
WELLINGTON, July 18. Tho Appeal Court sat this morning to hear an application by the Wellington District Law Society for an order to stride off the rolls of barristers and 'solicitors Wm. Geo. Somorville. The niisocn-duct complained of was that while acting as solicitor to Catherine Butler, of Wellington, a widow, he received £1,700 for the purpose of investing it upon first mortgage on Jand. Instead of 60 investing, bowever, he fraudulently converted the money to his own use, and otherwise fraudulently applied it to soma other purpose. There was also another charge of wrongfully appropriating £132 15s 4d, the property of a syndicate. -Mr Gray appeared for tho Law Society. Somervillo appeared in person. The Court consisted of the. Chief Justice (Sir Robert Stout) and Justices Wiliams, Denniston, Cooper, and Chapman, i The- esse is £rooe«iiri£.
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Evening Star, Issue 14931, 18 July 1912, Page 4
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143APPEAL COURT. Evening Star, Issue 14931, 18 July 1912, Page 4
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