Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-29
THE GRANT.WIISOy CASE.
Decision or tho District supreme


THE RULE ON JEREMIAH NJ. WILSON TO
SHOW CAuSe WHY HE SHOULD NOT BE
nlsBARkI.D NOT GRANTED.
s,ai Ten, ~" haing IN The supreme Court IN Gen
and Mf-eArthur-the opinion of the court in
the no alter of the applicable for rule on
wny he should not be removed as a member
OF the bar FLED by Mr. A. X. Browne for AT
bert Grant was delivered. This application
was before the court yesterday. when Mr..
Wilson filed by Messrs. Mer,ick and Elliott
an answer To Grants petition.
JUDGE HUMPHREYS
delivered the opinion of the court, in which
he said the question was whether the court
would permit the paper filed to go upon the
record and whether they should call upon
Wilson TO answer They had read the paper,
as also the paper purporti1g to De the ansEsr
cred them, and had come 20 the conclusion
ard without the slightest difference OF opiu-
ion among the judges, that the court was not
called upon to take the action asked. They
gather from the proceedings in which the APP
plicant has been interested that his affairs
have become so complicated as to induce
him TO go into litigation. and he has appa-
rently got the idea that the world was against
him. They had come TO the conclusion that
the allegations are not such as would
Justly the court In oriering the in
A lawyers reputation is his property, he has
fee simple to IL. ana il should not be ques-
TONED unless for good and sufficient reasons.
General charges would not answer In con-
cluSion he read the following: "But | am
advised by my brethren to say-and 1t is
delivered as the unanimous conclusion of the
cOurt-that we can see nothing In the whole
matter TO raise even a title OF suspicion
against the strict integrity and moral and
legal professional bearing of Mr.. Wilson.
lie stands III our estimation as worthy
member ofth e bar, suite 4 and fitted to practice
that profession, which when the principles
OF IL are strictly adhered tO,elevate the ideas
of truth, fix high the standard of faith, and
carry the individual mind TO a safe aud sure
position from which the little disturbances
OF life cannot move IL. His department has
been modest and unassuming, as if conscious
from the beginning that when the tests were
applied he would stand acquitted of the least
lingering suspicion"
JUDGE MACARTHUR
said, after reviewing the proceedings in the
cases of Grant against the Phoenix Insurance
Company. that the principal charge sought
10 be made was that Wilson appeared for
adverse parties. This adverse party was the
receiver appointed with the consent of the
party nliEg this petition, and he could not
toe regarded as an adverse party, even IL the
pretended contract was in force; but the pa
peTs show that Mr.. Wilson had retired from
the case al that time.
JUDGE WYLTE
remarked that until a rule is issued there is
no case In court. In this case the party had
filed paper in the clerks office, as thou Oh
he had right TO bring suit, and then some
body bad published ii in the newspapers.
The paper then was not upon the record. and
until yesterday was not before the court
and the counsel had waived the rule by
hling an answer. In their conclusion not to
issue The rule they bad not thought proper TO
regard the answer. The petition shows that
the contract was made in May, and the re-
CORDS do not show that Wilson & Shellabar-
ger appeared in the cases after the time they
state that they abandoned them in June when
the act complained of is said to have been
committed in September. The contract on
its face appeared TO be wild one, which no
lawyer would enter into on a contingency
although II is sworn 20; but we are not
bound TO believe everything that is sworn 10.
This contract purpOrts 10 bind the firm to
counsel, Grant and his daughter, and the
representatives of his estate. There is no
ground for rule on the face of the petition,
and the application is denied