People ex rel. Rogers v. Green
Supreme Court of Colorado
Disbarment proceedings. On rehearing. On the 16th of June, 1886, Lucius P. Marsh and Merrick A. Rogers filed in this court their petition for a rule upon Thomas A. Green and Horace B. Johnson to show cause why they should not be disbarred.
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Disbarment proceedings. On rehearing. On the 16th of June, 1886, Lucius P. Marsh and Merrick A. Rogers filed in this court their petition for a rule upon Thomas A. Green and Horace B. Johnson to show cause why they should not be disbarred. Their petition alleges that on the 17th day of May, A. D. 1886, the said Green and Johnson “filed, and procured and caused to he filed, in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the United States within and for the district and state of Colorado, sitting at Denver, a certain bill or complaint in chancery, wherein Almon P. Newton and Isabel J.…
1Per curiam
The relators in each of these proceedings seek to have the names of respondents stricken from the roll of attorneys admitted to practice before the courts of this state. The cases, although submitted together and upon the same evidence, will, so far as practicable, be separately discussed in this opinion.
1. The petition and answer in People v. Rogers present the following issues, viz.: Did Marsh proffer, and did Judge Rogers accept, a bribe in the Newton Case? Was the decision of Judge Rogers in said cause the result of a corrupt partiality on his part? Did Marsh and Judge Rogers, or either…
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