Law Offices of Tolles, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley to Charles W. Chesnutt, 17 May 1922
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LAW OFFICES OF
TOLLES, HOGSETT, GINN, & MORLEY
12TH FLOOR WILLIAMSON BUILDING
CLEVELAND, O.1
May 17, 1922.
Mr. C. W. Chesnutt,
Williamson Building,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Dear Mr. Chesnutt:
Referring to my letter of May 6, in relation to taking depositions for Cushing and Cushing, San Francisco attorneys,2 I desire to advise you that I have received from the District Court of the United States, for the Northern District of California, where the case is pending, a commission for you to take the testimony here at our office on May 22. Mr. Wood,3 of our firm, will handle the matter and advise you with reference thereto. Mr. Wood will advise you whether or not Mr. Assmus4 will attend without issuing a subpoena.
Very truly yours, Frank H. Ginn[?]5Correspondent: Tolles, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley was a Cleveland law firm located, like Chesnutt's business, in the Willamson Building. Sheldon Hitchcock Tolles (1858–1926) was a White Cleveland lawyer with a B.A. from Western Reserve University who had been part of prominent law firms in Cleveland since being admitted to the bar in 1880, and was initially part of Henderson, Kline, and Tolles, for whom Chesnutt worked briefly before starting his own business. Tolles, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley was formed in 1913 in the merger of two large Cleveland firms. Specializing in corporate law, especially railroads and utilities, it existed until 1938.
1. For readability, the remainder of the letterhead is not transcribed in the body of the letter but is included in this footnote as unformatted text. The letterhead can be seen in its entirety in the accompanying image of the letter. The text of the remainder of the letterhead is as follows: S. H. TOLLES T. H. HOGSETT FRANK H. GINN J. E. MORLEY WILLIAM L. DAVID JOHN M. GARFIELD GARDNER ABBOTT GROVER HIGGINS THOMAS H. JONES W. T. KINDER W. B. COCKLEY JAMES P. WOOD LESLIE NICHOLS KING TOLLES C. F. REAVIS, JR. H. A. MARTING W. A. DOUGHERTY E. H. JONES J. W. REAVIS E. J. BLANDIN C. H. GALE [back]
2. Cushing & Cushing was a San Francisco-based general practice law firm run by brothers Oscar Kennedy Cushing (1865–1948) and Charles S. Cushing (1867–1946) from 1908 until the 1940s. They represented several California banks in the early 1920s. [back]
3. James Perry Wood (1880–1935) was a White lawyer and former prosecuting county attorney in Athens, Ohio, who had come to Cleveland and joined the law firm of Tolles, Hogsett, Ginn & Morley in 1919. [back]
4. Most likely Albert L. Assmus (1876–1937), vice president of the Cleveland Trust Company, one of Cleveland's most prominent banks. [back]
5. The signature cannot be read with certainty, but may be that of Frank Hadley Ginn (1868–1938), one of the firm's four founding partners. [back]
