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1 Sadler 347

In re Blank

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 18, 1886

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1886-01-18

The facts of the case are well stated in the opinion of the court below, which was as follows: Opinion by Woodward, J.: Upon the filing of a petition signed by John T. Lenahan, Henry A. Fuller, and J. Yaughan Darling, Esquires, as a committee of the Wilkes Barre Law & Library Association, together with a copy of certain specifications and charges, this court on July 2J, 1885, granted a rule on Blank, Esq., a member of the bar, to show cause why he shall not be disbarred or…

Affirmed · Decided 1886-01-18

Per Curiam:

¶1Public policy demands that the court and the public be protected against unworthy practices of an attorney in his profession. The learned judge, after a full hearing, and on evidence the most of which was undisputed, found the plaintiff in error guilty of abstracting from the files in the office of the prothonotarv a receipt attached to a fieri facias. While there may have been doubt as to any criminal intent, yet it was clearly an act of such professional misconduct as to justify the judgment of the court in suspending him from practice for the limited time specified. The reasons stated in the opinion of the court sustain its conclusion.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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