Sanborn v. Kimball
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. This was a motion presented by Hon. A. Sanborn in behalf of the bar of Penobscot county, for the removal of Benjamin Kim-ball from the office of an attorney and counsellor at law.
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On report. This was a motion presented by Hon. A. Sanborn in behalf of the bar of Penobscot county, for the removal of Benjamin Kim-ball from the office of an attorney and counsellor at law. It prayed for a rule upon Mr. Kimball to show cause why he should, not be removed, assigning as causes that he did not “possess a good moral character,” in this that at the February term 1860, of this court for this county, he was convicted of forgery for which he was at the following criminal term sentenced to two years imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison; also, in that he had been guilty of…
1Opinion of the CourtDickerson, J.
This is a complaint for the removal of the respondent from his office as attorney and counsellor at law. The complaint which is in the form of a motion signed by A. Sanborn, Esq., of and for the Penobscot bar, prays for a rule upon the respondent to show cause why he should not be removed from the office of attorney and counsellor at law of this court upon and for the following charges, to wit: “that he does not possess a good moral character, in that at the February term of said court, A. D. 1860, he was convicted of the crime of forgery, and at the next August term of said court lie was…
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