Case ID: minn_123/html/0529-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pee Cubiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE BOARD OF LAW EXAMINERS v. JOHN A. GIANTVALLEY.
    
    November 14, 1913.
    Nos. 18,254— (18).
    Suspension of attorney.
    An attorney at law suspended from practice for one year because of conviction of violation of R. L. 1905, § 5166, prohibiting the publication of advertisements soliciting divorce business. [Reporter.]
    Charges against defendant, one of which was conviction of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, to-wit: The crime of advertising and soliciting for divorce business, were filed in this court. Objections to the sufficiency of the accusation were overruled. Thereupon a plea of not guilty was entered. The testimony was taken and reported to the court.
    Suspended from practice for one year.
    
      James JE. Jenks, for petitioner.
    
      Percy D. Godfrey, for defendant.
    Note. — On the question of advertising as ground for disbarment of attorney, see note in 33 L.R.A.(N.S.) 941.
    
      
       Reported in 143 N. W. 1135.
    
   Pee Cubiam.

The State Board of Law Examiners made charges against the defendant and asked his disbarment. Defendant answered, and testimony was taken before a referee and reported to the court. The matter was duly heard. The court finds defendant guilty, in that he was convicted of a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, to-wit: Causing the publication of advertisements soliciting divorce business in violation of R. L. 1905, § 5166. It is ordered that defendant be suspended from practice as an attorney-at-law in the courts of this state for a period of one year from the filing hereof.