In re de Propper
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Superior Court on July 10, 1919, for admission or reinstatement as a member of the bar of the Commonwealth. Notice of the petition was ordered served upon the chairman of the board of bar examiners and upon the president and the secretary of the Bar Association of the City of Boston, and answers were filed in behalf of that bar association and of the board of bar examiners. The petitioner filed a document entitled “The Replication.”
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Petition, filed in the Superior Court on July 10, 1919, for admission or reinstatement as a member of the bar of the Commonwealth. Notice of the petition was ordered served upon the chairman of the board of bar examiners and upon the president and the secretary of the Bar Association of the City of Boston, and answers were filed in behalf of that bar association and of the board of bar examiners. The petitioner filed a document entitled “The Replication.” The petition was heard by Wait, J., and was dismissed. The petitioner appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a petition for admission or reinstatement to practise law. It was heard by a judge of the Superior Court and by him denied and ordered dismissed. The petitioner appealed.
A petition for admission to the bar is a proceeding at law and not in equity. Boston Bar Association v. Greenhood, 168 Mass. 169, 182. Boston Bar Association v. Casey, 227 Mass. 46, 51. An appeal in a case at law brings before this court for examination only errors of law apparent on the record. It does not bring up the evidence for review. Given v. Johnson, 213 Mass. 251. The material part of the record consists of…
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