Fairfield County Bar v. Taylor
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint by a committee of the Fairfield County Bar, against the defendant, an attorney-at-law of that county, made to the Superior Court for that county, charging the defendant with fraudulent conduct as an attorney, and asking for bis disbarment. The case was beard by Fenn, J., a finding of the facts was made, and a decree passed disbarring the defendant and forever prohibiting him from practising law in the state. The defendant appealed to this court.
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
The appellant was an attorney-at-law residing in Danbury and practising in Fairfield County. He was displaced from being an attorney by an order of the Superior Court in that county made on the 13th day of May, 1890. From that order he has appealed to this court.
Section 704 of the General Statutes provides as follows:— “ The Superior Court may admit and cause to be sworn as attorneys such persons as are qualified therefor, agreeably to the rules established by the judges of said court; and no other person than an attorney so admitted shall plead at the bar of any court in this state, except…
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