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HOFFMEISTER v. TOD

No. 47787.

349 S.W.2d 5 (1961)

Fred J. HOFFMEISTER, Chairman, William Kohn, John A. Arnold, Christian B. Peper, and Albert Krueger, constituting the Bar Committee of the Eighth Judicial Circuit of Missouri, Fred B. Hulse, James M. Reeves, Forrest M. Hemker, Clyde J. Linde and C. Wallace Walter, Members of the Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court, Informants, v. Edward M. TOD, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Missouri, In Banc.

September 11, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Courtney S. Goodman, St. Louis, special counsel for informants.

Morris J. Levin, S. Sheldon Weinhaus, St. Louis, for respondent.

F. Trowbridge vom Baur, Washington, D. C., Wayland B. Cedarquist, Chicago, Ill., Jonathan F. Ells, Winsted, Conn., Terrell Marshall, Little Rock, Ark., William L. Murphey, Los Angeles, Cal., H. H. Perry, Jr., Albany, Ga., Raymond Reisler, Brooklyn, N. Y., Melvin F. Adler, Fort Worth, Tex., for American Bar Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Rexford H. Caruthers, Caruthers & Montrey, St. Louis, for Lawyer's Ass'n of St. Louis, amicus curiae.

James K. Moran, Charles F. Luke, St. Louis, for Bar Ass'n of St. Louis, amicus curiae.

Malcolm L. Bartley, St. Louis, for Missouri State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, amicus curiae.

William M. Howard, St. Louis, Joseph E. Stevens, Jr., Kansas City, for Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee of Missouri Bar Integrated, amicus curiae.

EAGER, Judge.

By leave of court, the Bar Committee of the Eighth (now Twenty-Second) Judicial Circuit filed here an information charging respondent Edward M. Tod, a layman, with the unauthorized practice of law in various particulars, and with contempt. The Committee had previously conducted hearings and found probable cause. Tod filed an answer and return. No point is made on these formal pleadings and we do not digest them, except to say that Tod has denied that...

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