UNITED STATES EX REL. FITZGERALD v. STUMP

No. 6892.

112 F.Supp. 236 (1953)

UNITED STATES ex rel. FITZGERALD, Asst. U. S. Atty. v. STUMP.

District Court, Alaska, First Division, Juneau.

May 28, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. J. Gilmore, Jr., U. S. Atty., Juneau, Alaska, and James M. Fitzgerald, Asst. U. S. Atty., Ketchikan, Alaska, for plaintiff.

M. E. Monagle, Juneau, Alaska, W. C. Stump, Juneau, Alaska, in pro. per., for defendant.


FOLTA, District Judge.

The question presented by this proceeding for the disbarment of the defendant is whether a threat by an attorney to cause pecuniary loss to a legislator because of his vote on a certain bill is misconduct which tends to bring reproach upon the profession or injure it in the favorable opinion of the public.

The legislator, William K. Boardman, is engaged in the insurance business in Ketchikan, where the defendant also practices law. The...

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