Dalzell v. State Bar

The State Bar of California has recommended that petitioner, a member thereof, be disbarred from the practice of the law. This recommendation, and the charges and findings upon which it is based, arose out of the following facts:

In 1918 Florence Ferguson Shoemaker died testate, leaving a life estate in her property to Samuel M. Ferguson and upon his death the property was to pass to the direct offspring of O. W. Ferguson, and if none, then equally to her nephews and cousins. Her estate was accordingly distributed. Thereafter and in 1928 the life tenant died and his wife, Henrietta Ferguson,…