Bar Ass'n of the City of Boston v. Casey

The petition for the disbarment of the respondent alleged among other things that he “has not observed the require*550ments of his said oath of office” and “has not continued to be and is not of good moral character, and has been guilty of deceit, malpractice and other gross misconduct.”

After a full hearing the judge found that the respondent had “fraudulently appropriated to his own use a considerable sum of money belonging to his client,” and ordered that he be disbarred. The respondent appealed from the order of disbarment, which appeal seems not to have been prosecuted, but instead thereof,…