Legal Opinion

Worthen v. State ex rel. Verner

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided July 25, 1914PublishedCited by 21 opinions

Appeal from Tuscaloosa County Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Alston. Proceedings by the State, on the relation of Verner, as solicitor, to remove G. B. Worthen from the list of practicing attorneys, and to revoke his license. From a judgment granting the relief prayed, respondent appeals.

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Appeal from Tuscaloosa County Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Alston. Proceedings by the State, on the relation of Verner, as solicitor, to remove G. B. Worthen from the list of practicing attorneys, and to revoke his license. From a judgment granting the relief prayed, respondent appeals. The following are the charges or infoimiation referred to in the opinion: C. Informants charge that said Worthen has violated the provision of section 6314, Code 1907, in this, that on, to wit, October 14, 1912, A. S. Vandegraaff, for and in the name of Washington Moody, as trustee, filed in the Tuscaloosa…

1Opinion of the Court

McCLELLAN, j.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Tuscaloosa county court removing G. B. Worthen as a practicing attorney in this state. — Code, § 3008. The trial of appellant resulted from proceedings instituted in virtue of Code, § 2997, by a large number of the attorneys resident of Tuscaloosa. That *398section is as follows: “Proceedings Upon Information of Individual. If the proceedings are upon the information of an individual, the accusation must he in writing, setting forth the facts upon which the charges are based, verified by the oath of such individual, or some other person, taken…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Gassenheimer v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1875
  2. Globe Iron Roofing & Corrugating Co. v. ThacherSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
  3. Burgess & Co. v. MartinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1895
  4. Florence Building & Investment Ass'n v. SchallSupreme Court of Alabama · 1894
  5. Woodward v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1911

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3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Robertson v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1924
  2. Birmingham Paper Co. v. CurrySupreme Court of Alabama · 1939
  3. Ex Parte MesserSupreme Court of Alabama · 1933
  4. Lincoln National Bank v. MundingerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1988
  5. Vredenburgh v. Liberty Nat. Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1944

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