In Re Contempt Proceedings of Brainard

These proceedings were instituted by direction of the board of bar commissioners of the state of Idaho, for the purpose of securing an order requiring E. C. S. Brainard to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court in that he for several years last past had been practicing law and holding himself out as qualified to practice law in the state, without having been admitted to practice by the Supreme Court of the state of Idaho, and without paying the license fees now prescribed by law for the practice of law.

Defendant Brainard filed an answer to the petition and affidavit,…