In Re Craven

The defendant has filed a plea of res judicata, founded upon the judgment dated the 2d of December, 1929, In re Craven,169 La. 555, 125 So. 591, dismissing the disbarment proceedings against this defendant, for want of a valid service of summons or citation. The reason for the ruling that the service of citation upon the curator ad hoc, appointed to represent the absent defendant, was not valid, was that there was no law nor rule of court providing for the appointment of a curator ad hoc to represent a defendant in a disbarment proceeding, where the defendant had departed permanently from the…