State v. Peck
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint for alleged professional misconduct by the defendant as an attorney at law, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Fairfield County, Bennett, J.; facts found and judgment rendered suspending the defendant from practicing law in the courts of this State indefinitely, from which he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The acts, which in the complaint are charged as misconduct calling for the respondent’s disbarment, and for which, as appears by the judgment-file, he was disbarred, were all done by him in the course of the settlement of an estate of a deceased person in the Court of Probate over which he presided. The misconduct alleged, and made the basis of the judgment, was misconduct connected with the performance of his judicial office. The claim made upon demurrer to the complaint, and renewed at the hearing, that such misconduct was not misconduct'as a member of the bar, and, therefore, not of a kind…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Ex Parte WallSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Randall v. BrighamSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- In Re DurantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
- Fairfield County Bar v. TaylorSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- Bar Ass'n v. GreenhoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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- Rosenthal v. State Bar Examining CommitteeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1933
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