Re Investigation of Sherwood
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 287, Jan. T., 1916, by respondent, from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., May T., 1916, No. 281, striking defendant’s name from record as an attorney for a period of six months in re Investigation of certain statements alleged“to have been made by Paul J. Sherwood, Esq., a member of the Luzerne County Bar. Rule to show cause why respondent should not be removed from the office of attorney for breach of fidelity to the court and misbehavior in office.
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Appeal, No. 287, Jan. T., 1916, by respondent, from order of C. P. Luzerne Co., May T., 1916, No. 281, striking defendant’s name from record as an attorney for a period of six months in re Investigation of certain statements alleged“to have been made by Paul J. Sherwood, Esq., a member of the Luzerne County Bar. Rule to show cause why respondent should not be removed from the office of attorney for breach of fidelity to the court and misbehavior in office. Before Barber, P. J., specially presiding. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The lower court made an order suspending…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Brown,
In June, 1914, Henry W. Stough, a citizen of the State of Illinois, and a peripatetic evangelist, conducted a series of largely-attended public meetings in the City of Hazleton, this State. In the course of his addresses or sermons he referred to four residents of the city in terms regarded by them as slanderous, and each one of them brought an action against him in the court below. In March, 1916, he presented his petitions to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, setting forth that, from prejudice and local influence in…
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