Bar Ass'n of the City of Boston v. Hale
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition for disbarment filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk January 11, 1907. After the petition was filed, Arthur D. Hill, a member of the bar, was authorized by the presiding judge .to prosecute the inquiry and proceedings in relation to it.
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Petition for disbarment filed in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk January 11, 1907. After the petition was filed, Arthur D. Hill, a member of the bar, was authorized by the presiding judge .to prosecute the inquiry and proceedings in relation to it. The specific allegations of the petition with regard to misconduct on the part of the respondent were as follows: “ 3. In or about the year 1904, at some time not precisely known to your petitioner, one Gertrude S. Brackett, wife of one Arthur L. Brackett, employed the respondent to represent her as an attorney at law in divorce…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
At the hearing of this petition for the disbarment of the respondent, the judge found in his favor upon the charge contained in the fourth paragraph of the petition; and this part of the case is now settled in his favor.
The judge found that the respondent did not commit the acts stated in the fifth paragraph, and did not act with the fraudulent intént therein set forth, but that the sum which he charged and retained from the amount received by him as charged in the *435sixth paragraph was excessive and unreasonable. The respondent now contends as to this that there was no evidence in the case to…
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