228 Mass. 382
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 21, 1917
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1917-11-21
Bill in equity, inserted in a common law writ dated February 9, 1917, against an attorney at law and the Bar Association of the City of Boston, praying that the defendant attorney be removed from his office and that the defendant association “ show cause, if any it has,” why this prayer should not be granted.
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently February 1943
1 state decisions
Relies on Bar Ass'n v. Greenhood · Bar Ass'n v. Casey · Bar Ass'n v. Casey
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Decided 1917-11-21
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¶1This is a bill in equity seeking the disbarment of an attorney at law. It was begun by an ordinary writ of summons and attachment. Such a proceeding cannot be instituted or maintained in this way. Boston Bar Association v. Greenhood, 168 Mass. 169, 182. Boston Bar Association v. Casey, 211 Mass. 187; 227 Mass. 46, 51. Randall, petitioner, 11 Allen, 473. Matter of Allin, 224 Mass. 9.
¶2Decree affirmed.