Saxton v. Stowell
New York Court of Chancery
This was an application to sot aside the proceedings of the ' complainants in these causes, for irregularity, or to stay the proceedings therein, until the costs of a former suit, for the same matter, should be paid; and also for an order to strike the solicitor of the complainants from the roll of solicitors, for-misconduct in relation to the proceedings in these suits.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The question whether Saxton, the solicitor in these causes, should be stricken from the rolls, cannot be disposed of upon this application. The statute requires that charges shall be first filed against him, and a copy thereof served. The proper course of proceedings, in such cases, is to file *527written charges against the solicitor who is accused of malpractice, accompanied by affidavits supporting the charges ; and then to apply, ex parte, .to obtain an order from the court, that the accused show cause, at a time to be specified in such order, why he should not be stricken from…
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