State Bar v. Rollinson

THE COURT.

Charles W. Rollinson applied to this court for a review of the decision of the District Court of Appeal

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in and for the Second Appellate District, Division One, revoking his license to practice law in the state of California. The proceeding before said tribunal was initiated by The State Bar of California through the presentation on or about April 28, 1930, of a petition on behalf of that body praying that the license of said Rollinson, the petitioner herein, to practice law in this state, which license had been issued to him by said court on or about March 23, 1925, be revoked. In support of its petition The State Bar alleged as the only ground for the granting thereof that the license of said petitioner then issued had been fraudulently procured through the concealment by Rollinson of the fact that some years previously, while he was a practitioner before the bar of the state of Indiana, proceedings for his disbarment had been instituted in that state, which proceedings had been subsequently dismissed. Upon a hearing upon said petition a stipulation as to the facts had been entered into between the representatives of The State Bar and the petitioner herein and which stipulation formed the basis for the order made by said tribunal revoking the license of this petitioner and which, relying in the main upon said stipulated facts, he herein seeks to have reviewed. The facts as therein agreed to may be more briefly stated as follows:

On or about May 29, 1912, Charles W. Rollinson, after a course of training pursued in the schools and colleges of Indiana, of which state he was a native, and after an examination, was duly and regularly admitted to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in all the courts of said state. He then engaged and continued in the practice of the law therein successfully and creditably for the period of about ten years. While thus engaged and on or about June 15, 1922, a disbarment proceeding was instituted against him in the Circuit Court of Marion County, Indiana, said proceeding being entitled “State of Indiana on Relation of Lewis A. Coleman

vs.

Charles W. Rollinson.” An examination of the record herein shows that the complaint in said proceeding consisted in the main of generalities and was unverified. The defendant in due course appeared to oppose said petition, to demand that the same be made specific and be verified. Shortly thereafter the venue of said proceeding was changed from the Circuit Court of Marion County to the