PETITION OF DADE COUNTY BAR ASS'N, ETC., SP. COMMITTEE


116 So.2d 1 (1959)

PETITION OF DADE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT'S AND STATE ATTORNEY'S SPECIAL COMMITTEE.

Supreme Court of Florida.

November 25, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Pruitt, Miami, for appellant.

Reginald L. Williams, C. Clyde Atkins, Perry Nichols and Murray Sams, Jr., Miami, for appellee.


DREW, Justice.

The question here is whether a circuit judge has the power to appoint a committee of lawyers to conduct an investigation of alleged unethical practices by officers of his court within his jurisdiction1 and to empower such committee so appointed by him to procure the attendance of witnesses before it by subpoena.

The committee appointed by the circuit judge to conduct the investigation (whose authority to do so is...

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