In re Disbarment of Philbrook

Citations

• 105 Cal. 471
• 38 P. 884
• 1895 Cal. LEXIS 682

Syllabus

<p>Attorney at Law—Violation of Duty—Contempt of Court — Sus-s pension.—Where an attorney at law has filed in the supreme court a brief in which he has violated his duty as an attorney by the use of unwarrantable language in assailing a justice of the supreme court, with intent to commit a contempt of the court, and by palpably attempting to influence the decision of the court by appeals to the supposed timidity of its justices, the attorney guilty of the same should be suspended from his office as an attorney at law.</p>