Ex parte Steinman & Hensel
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writs of error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster county: Of May Term 1880, Nos. 173 and 174. The court below entered rules on A. J. Steinman and W. U. Hensel, to show cause why they should not appear and answer for contempt of court, and also why they should not be disbarred for misbehavior in their offices as attorneys of said court.
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Writs of error to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster county: Of May Term 1880, Nos. 173 and 174. The court below entered rules on A. J. Steinman and W. U. Hensel, to show cause why they should not appear and answer for contempt of court, and also why they should not be disbarred for misbehavior in their offices as attorneys of said court. The facts are fully stated in the following opinion of the court below, Patterson, A. L. J. “ Whereas, on January 20th 1880, in the presence of said court being then in open session, the judge then presiding sent a messenger of the court to inform…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharswood
The record before us has been brought up by a writ of error under the Act of Assembly approved May 19th 1879, Pamph. L. 66, entitled “An act regulating-proceedings against attorneys-at-*236law in this Commonwealth.” It provides “that in all cases of any proceedings in any court of this Commonwealth against any attorney of said court for unprofessional conduct as an officer of such court, said attorney shall be entitled to a writ of error from the Supreme Court of this Commonwealth, as in civil cases to said court, from any judgment, order or decree of. said court against him as such officer,…
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