Case ID: wis_206/html/0615-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Rosenberry, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

State, Plaintiff, vs. Andrews, Defendant.
    
      December 11, 1931
    January 12, 1932.
    
    
      The matter was set down for argument. The defendant filed no brief and made no appearance in this court.
    
      Spencer Haven of Hudson, attorney for plaintiff, and counsel for the Board of State Bar Commissioners, for the plaintiff.
   Rosenberry, C. J.

The character of the charges is indicated with sufficient particularity in the recommendations of the referee and we do not find it necessary in this case to set them out in detail. The circumstances in this case clearly established by the proof are difficult to understand and are incomprehensible to the members of the court who have known the defendant personally. It cannot be otherwise than that some disintegrating influence has operated upon defendant’s life and broken down his standards not only of professional conduct but his moral standards as well. In this as in many other cases the principal sufferer will be the innocent family of the defendant, but that fact, while it may appeal to our sympathy, affords the court no excuse for a failure to perform its duty. Under the circumstances it is considered that the recommendations of the referee must be confirmed.

By the Court. — It is ordered and adjudged that the name of the defendant be, and the same is hereby, stricken from the roll of attorneys of this court, and the license to practice law heretofore granted to him be, and the same is hereby, revoked, and he is ordered and required to desist from the practice of law in this state.