Ex parte Browne
Supreme Court of Colorado
Ojst the 1st day of April, A. D. 1874, and at the February term in that year, Francis M. Piper preferred charges against Samuel E. Browne, Esq., an attorney of this court, for a failure to pay over to him the sum of $400, collected by said Browne as the attorney of said Piper, from the Kansas Pacific Railway Company. Other charges were embraced in the petition which it is unnecessary to notice.
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Ojst the 1st day of April, A. D. 1874, and at the February term in that year, Francis M. Piper preferred charges against Samuel E. Browne, Esq., an attorney of this court, for a failure to pay over to him the sum of $400, collected by said Browne as the attorney of said Piper, from the Kansas Pacific Railway Company. Other charges were embraced in the petition which it is unnecessary to notice. Upon this an order was entered requiring the respondent, at the July sitting of the court, to show cause why his name should not be stricken from the roll of attorneys, and upon a hearing in July the…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
Samuel E. Browne was disbarred at the July sitting of the court, and now applies to be reinstated. His petition sets forth that on the 5th day of August, Edward M. McCook, then governor of the Territory, granted to him unconditional pardon, whereby, it is averred, “petitioner was restored to all civil rights forfeited by him in consequence of the judgment of this honorable court.” The pardon, an exemplification of which is filed with the petition, recites that the petitioner was found guilty of misconduct in his office as an attorney. What particular misconduct was imputed is not set forth,…
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