In re the Disbarment of Learnard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

On July 2, 1925, the board of law examiners caused to be filed an accusation against Oscar E. Learnard, a practicing attorney at law in this state, charging him with having received from Harold O. Hunter a check to be collected by suit or otherwise for one-half of the interest of Hunter in the check; that an action was commenced before a justice of the peace, where judgment was rendered in favor of Hunter; that the action was then appealed to the district court, where the action was again tried and judgment was rendered for the plaintiff;…