In re Wyatt

Citations

• 102 Cal. 264
• 36 P. 586
• 1894 Cal. LEXIS 631

Syllabus

<p>Disbarment of Attorney—Fraud Upon Client—Charge of Criminal Offense.—Upon an application for the disbarment of an attorney by a former client, who accuses the attorney of fraudulently appropriating money, in so far as the allegations made tend to show that the accused attorney has been guilty of a criminal offense, the charge will not be investigated by the supreme court until after regular proceedings in the courts having jurisdiction of the offense.</p> <p>Id.—Remedy by Civil Action—Private Injury.—Where the accuser has a right to recover in a civil action the money of which he claims to have been defrauded, this court will decline to investigate such a charge by a party complaining merely of a private injury, until such party has shown his good faith by first resorting to regular proceedings in the ordinary tribunals.</p>