In Re Durant
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint by a committee .of the bar of New Haven County charging the respondent, an attorney at law, with professional misconduct, and asking for his disbarment, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered permanently disbarring the respondent from practice before the courts of this State, from which he appealed. The respondent, Harold R. Durant, was an attorney at law having his office in Waterbury.
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Complaint by a committee .of the bar of New Haven County charging the respondent, an attorney at law, with professional misconduct, and asking for his disbarment, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in New Haven County, Shumway, J.; facts found and judgment rendered permanently disbarring the respondent from practice before the courts of this State, from which he appealed. The respondent, Harold R. Durant, was an attorney at law having his office in Waterbury. A Mrs. Lathrop, who was a family friend, claimed that her husband, then being a man of property with a considerable income, had…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
An attorney at law is an officer of court exercising a privilege or franchise to the enjoyment of which he has been admitted, not as a matter of right, but upon proof of fitness through evidence of his possession of satisfactory legal attainments and fair private character. Fairfield County Bar v. Taylor, 60 Conn. 11, 15, 22 Atl. 441; Ex parte Garland, 4 Wall. (U. S.) 338, 378; Butchers Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U. S. 746, 763, 4 Sup. Ct. Rep. 652. For the manner in which this privilege or franchise is exercised he is continually accountable to the court, and it may at any time be…
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