Hanson v. Grattan

Citations

• 84 Kan. 843
• 115 P. 646
• 1911 Kan. LEXIS 427

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Attorneys — Admission—Judicial Function. The power to admit applicants to the practice of the law is judicial and not legislative.</p> <p>'2. -. Admission — Tenure. ■ When an applicant is legally admitted to the practice of law, he becomes thereby an officer of the court for the term of his life or until he shall have been disbarred by the judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.</p> <p>r3. - Same. An applicant admitted to practice law in the district and inferior courts of the state of Kansas by the decision of a district court prior to the enactment of chapter 64 of the Laws of 1903, and who has not been disbarred, continues after the enactment of that chapter to be “regularly admitted to practice law within the state of Kansas” within the meaning of that phrase in section 1 of chapter 163 of the Laws of 1907.</p>