Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Colorado Bar Ass'n v. Humbert

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided April 15, 1911No. 5626PublishedCited by 3 opinions

The facts examined and respondent exonerated. Original proceedings in disbarment.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice White

The purpose of this suit is to have the name of respondent stricken from the roll of attorneys entitled to practice at the bar of this court. The information contains four separate charges of unprofessional conduct. No evidence was submitted in support of the sec*61ond and third charge, and they are eliminated from consideration.

The allegations of the first are, substantially, that respondent, while attorney for one William Westlake in the prosecution of a divorce suit against the latter's wife, received of his client certain sums of money with the understanding that a certain amount thereof…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People ex rel. Colorado Bar Ass'n v. SindlingerSupreme Court of Colorado · 1901

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. In Re McCueMontana Supreme Court · 1927
  2. Costigan v. AdkinsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1927
  3. People v. YoakumSupreme Court of Colorado · 1976

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