SOLICITOR SUSPENDED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 99, 28 April 1922, Page 6

SOLICITOR SUSPENDED.

cass or r. j. tippets. APPEAL COCB-TS DECISION. j •By Telegraph.—Press Association., ' < WELLINGTON", this day. ; The Appeal Court's judgment in the application by the New Zealand Law j _ Society to strike Fruncig J. T'rppmg-, or Auckland, off rhe roll of barristers and ' solicitors, was that he he suspended for .' two ye-ars and •'.-rdercd to pay £15 15 , ccst.- of the proceedings. -An afndavat by W. T Leeee. secretary of tie Auckland District . Society, placed before the Court, stated that on Mi-- 17. 10-21. he received from, ; V. R. Meredith wrth Tipping,certain let- - ter-. Meredith's letter stated that Trp- . ping was a solicitor on beterlf oi the Crown in a matter oi mortgages under j ] the Discharged .Soldiers' Settlement Act. | ( and that an Apr;' II Meredith was in-1 etructed to recover the sums of £300 , and £oT)0 from Tipping. He wrote to Tipp ; :ig. but received no reply, and was , unable to see him. as; he '.'-"as drinking heavily. He waa brought, to Meredith's office by Detective Cammingß, and gave ; i cheque for £1100 i shore of £1) 10/ i. His document* showed fourteen un- • stamped tran£=act-ons, lines xn.d stamp < duty totalling £10$ 11 '. Tapping's ; friends, had cinee paid £210 to cover . de He ienc ie*.