Cramer v. Tittel

Citations

• 3 Cal. Unrep. 80
• 21 P. 750

Syllabus

<p>Appeal—Brief Stricken Out for Impropriety.—Respondent’s brief, after charging the commission of perjury by appellant in his answer, as to a fact alleged to be within his attorney’s knowledge, continued: “When counsel can be permitted to draft pleadings and present them to their clients for verification, and the pleadings being drawn from facts within the knowledge of counsel, and the counsel causes his client to willfully commit perjury,” etc. Held, a gross violation of professional ethics, and that the brief should be stricken out, with permission to file another within ten days, or the judgment would be reversed without an inspection of the record.</p>