In re Taylor

In 1944 Jay H. Taylor was deprived of his right to practice law. The complaint seeking his disbarment alleged two grounds: (1) That he had been convicted of a felony ; and (2) that he had aided in the perpetration of a fraud upon the court. The trial committee of the Kentucky State Bar Association, appointed to conduct a hearing, passed over the first charge and recommended his disbarment on the second.

The pertinent facts in connection with the accusation of the fraud, which resulted in the action taken, were: Taylor was the defendant in a trumped-up divorce action to dissolve a marriage…