Ex parte Ditchburn

This proceeding was instituted by the state, upon the relation of the attorney-general, to disbar an attorney for unprofessional conduct. The information charges that in the year 1892 John Ditch-burn, a licensed attorney, was retained to prosecute an appeal from a judgment rendered in the Circuit Court for Multnomah County against one Moldenhauer, and, in perfecting the same, executed an under*539taking therefor to which he fraudulently subscribed the names of M. H. Duntley and Edward Karsten as sureties, and in like manner also signed their names to the affidavit thereon and, as a notary public,…