Grievance Committee v. Ennis
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Complaint against the defendant, a member of the Fairfield County Bar, for professional misconduct in exacting an extortionate fee from his ward and client, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in said county, Burpee, J.; facts found and judgment rendered suspending the defendant from practice in this State for the period of two years, from which he appealed.
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Complaint against the defendant, a member of the Fairfield County Bar, for professional misconduct in exacting an extortionate fee from his ward and client, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in said county, Burpee, J.; facts found and judgment rendered suspending the defendant from practice in this State for the period of two years, from which he appealed. The complaint of the Grievance Committee, dated June 20th, 1909, and filed in the Superior Court July 15th, 1909, alleges that in February, 1909, one Nellie Shuster, a Russian girl, nineteen years of age, and unable to speak or…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, C. J.
Section 459 of the General Statutes provides that the Superior Court may suspend or displace attorneys for just cause. We have said that while a large measure of discretion enters into the action of the court in the exercise of this power, such discretion is not an absolute, but a reasonable one; that the power is one which is always to be used with moderation and caution; that the accused attorney is entitled to noticé of the charges against him, to a fair hearing, and a fair determination, in the exercise of a sound judicial discretion, of the questions at issue, and to an appeal to this…
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- In Re DurantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
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- Kline v. BeebeSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1827
- Morehouse v. . Brooklyn Heights R.R. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1906
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