Matter of Rouss
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 20,1915, disbarring the appellant from practice as an attorney and counselor at law. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. An attorney’s loss of his office is a penalty or forfeiture. (Matter of Kaffenburgh, 188 N. Y. 49; People ex rel. Schauwecker v. Green, 96 N. Y. 249; Matter of an Attorney, 83 N. Y. 164; Matter of Robinson, 140 App.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, entered November 20,1915, disbarring the appellant from practice as an attorney and counselor at law. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. An attorney’s loss of his office is a penalty or forfeiture. (Matter of Kaffenburgh, 188 N. Y. 49; People ex rel. Schauwecker v. Green, 96 N. Y. 249; Matter of an Attorney, 83 N. Y. 164; Matter of Robinson, 140 App. Div. 329; Matter of Lauterbach, 169 App. Div. 534; Matter of Feuchtwanger, 139 App. Div. 36; Matter of Hardenbrook, 135…
1Opinion of the CourtCardozo, J.
In 1912 the appellant, Jacob Rouss, was the attorney for one Eugene Fox. Fox, a member of the police force in the city of Yew York, had been brought before a magistrate on the charge of collecting bribes from the keeper of a disorderly house. The keeper of the house, one George A. Sipp, had been served with a subpoena, or at least there had been to his knowledge an attempt to serve him. Bouss and Sipp’s attorney entered into an arrangement that Sipp for a money consideration would keep without the state. The money was paid; Sipp fulfilled his bargain; and Box was discharged. Indictments were…
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