Koepple v. Morrison

The petitioner and appellant, a former member of the legal profession who was disbarred on Febru ary 24, 1925, brought an action upon a claim assigned to him for the purpose of collection only in the justice’s court of Santa Ana township, where he stipulated to the fact that judgment of disbarment had been entered against him, and that the chose in action was assigned to him solely for the purpose of collection. Upon that stipulation the respondent, Justice of the Peace, refused to permit the petitioner to proceed with the trial and declined to hear him further, whereupon he filed a petition…