In re Soares

DISSENTING OPINION OP

PERRY, J.

I respectfully dissent.

Passing for the moment other elements of the charge which will be later referred to, the mere fact that the respondent while district magistrate accepted employment as attorney for the libellant in a divorce case and *526performed to the end the duties of that employment does not justify his removal from office and was not in anywise illegal. Our statutes do not prohibit a magistrate from accepting such employment or from acting in the capacity of attorney. The state of the statutes, on the contrary, is such that they may properly be said to…