In Re Application for Discipline of Nilva

On March 11, 1961, a petition and accusation was filed in this court by the Practice of Law Committee of the Minnesota State Bar Association, wherein disbarment or other disciplinary action was sought against Allen I. Nilva, an attorney at law of the State of Minnesota, hereafter referred to as respondent. The petition alleged that on or about April 1, 1954, Allen I. Nilva, as vice president of Mayflower Distributing Company, a Minnesota corporation, appeared in the United States District Court for the District of North Dakota in response to two subpoenas issued in the case of Christianson v.…