In re Rule on Smith
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 454, Jan. T., 1896, by Cornelius Smith, from order of C. P. Lackawanna Co., May T., 1896, No. 18, making absolute a rule to disbar Cornelius Smith, an attorney at law. Rule to disbar an attorney.
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Appeal, No. 454, Jan. T., 1896, by Cornelius Smith, from order of C. P. Lackawanna Co., May T., 1896, No. 18, making absolute a rule to disbar Cornelius Smith, an attorney at law. Rule to disbar an attorney. Before Edwards, J. The rule was as follows: Lackawanna County, ss: It appearing that Cornelius Smith, Esq., a member of the bar of Lackawanna county, being the defendant in a certain action pending in the court of common pleas of said county, at the suit of I. H. Burns, to No. 781 September term, 1895, wherein a rule was pending before Hon. F. W. Gunster and Hon. H. M. Edwards, judges of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Dean,
The appellant, for many years prior to the decree in this case, was a reputable member of the bar in Lackawanna county. In January, 1889, he was retained as counsel by John G. Jennings, father, and James Jennings, son, to bring two suits against the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. It was alleged the son had been seriously injured by the negligence of defendant in a railroad accident, and his suit was for resulting damages: The father’s suit was for loss of his son’s services during minority, because of disability occasioned by the accident. On September 29, 1892,…
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