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BLACK v. STATE BAR

Docket No. S.F. 20814.

57 Cal.2d 219 (1962)

368 P.2d 118

18 Cal. Rptr. 518

WINSTON CHURCHILL BLACK, Petitioner, v. THE STATE BAR OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 16, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Landels, Weigel & Ripley, Stanley A. Weigel and Roger A. Parkinson for Petitioner.

Garrett H. Elmore for Respondent.

THE COURT.

After two hearings before a local administrative committee the Board of Bar Governors has found that petitioner misappropriated funds entrusted to his care by a client and wilfully commingled his own funds with those of a client. The board recommends that petitioner be suspended from the practice of law for three years.

Petitioner was retained in 1944 by the Friesleben Estate Company, a corporation organized in 1899 and dissolved in 1949. Sometime...

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