State Board of Law Examiners v. Phelan

Kimball, Chief Justice.

This is a disbarment proceeding brought by the State Board of Law Examiners, as complainant, and prosecuted by the Attorney General, under Chapter 51, Session Laws of 1925. It was charged that the accused attorney, called the respondent, altered a deed by substituting his name for the name of the grantee, and thereafter refused to recon-vey the deeded land to the true grantee until the latter agreed to give respondent a mortgage for $2000 on the land.

Chapter 51, supra, in prescribing the procedure in disbarment cases, provides for a hearing in the District Court, and…