In the Matter of ____, an Attorney
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, made May 8, 1881, which directed that the name of an attorney be stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors, and that he he removed from office.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the third judicial department, made May 8, 1881, which directed that the name of an attorney be stricken from the roll of attorneys and counselors, and that he he removed from office. In two actions pending in the Supremo Court in which said attorney appeared as attorney for plaintiffs, motions were made to dismiss the actions upon the ground that the person so appearing had been convicted of a felony, sentenced and imprisoned in State prison, and that thereby his office was forfeited and vacated. A certified copy of the record of…
1Opinion of the Court
Folger, Ch. J.
After what was said in the opinion (In re Eldridge, 82 N. Y. 164, 165), there is no need of further remark to express the feelings with which we enter upon the consideration of a matter in which the professional character and conduct of an attomey-at-law is concerned. We will proceed at once to consider the questions presented by the points of the appellant.
There is no question, properly in the case, whether the appellant had or had not a proper trial. He was entitled to a trial before the court upon evidence taken according to the rules of the common law. (82 N. Y., supra.)…
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