The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-06-02
MR.. SMITH DlSBARRED
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discussing them was assigned. and l
heartily concur in what he has said. BY
q line Of conduct unparalleled, ! am
almost compelled to say, In the annals
OF the professions the respondent has
Justly landed himself beyond its pale.
In the course of a simple case
for damages for alleged personal in
juries to his client. such as we encount-
er in the courts almost every day. he
has managed as attorney to traduce
and libel in the most outrageous fashion
every one from high to low. having the
slightest connection with it, and some
who positively have had none.
ABUSE LONG PERSISTED IN.
"Beginning with Mr.. Amerman. the
attorney Of the sheriff who served and
returned the original summons. he has
gone on in his unarrested career or
abuse until II has included not only the
opposing counsel in the case whom he
accuses of attempting to fabricate evil
dence, but the very judges by chance
called upon to hear and dispose OF 1t all
according to his reiterated statements
have been engaged in a common conspt-
racy to defeat and defraud his client
and prevent the ends justice. This
accusation has been applied not only to
Mr. Burns and Mr. Warren. counsel for
the defendant company, but to Mr.. and
now Judge Willard, who was merely
Mr. Warren's partner, and to Mr.. Pryor.
the prothonotary, simply because ne
was the principal of Mr.. Kasson. his
deputy, whom the defendant charges
with having packed the jury.
Judge Connolly, who first tried the
case, IS charged with the same corrupt
purpose because he saw fit to set aside
a verdict for the plaintiff which he re-
garded as a perverSiOn of justice and
Notwithstanding his death and the COM
mon respect due to this circumstance
the RESPONDENT continues with malevo-
lent persistency to asperse and blacken
his memory. Last of all he has extend
ed his attack to the writer, denouncing
him on the record Of this and of the
Supreme court and to his face In open
court, as participating In and favoring
the same as aforesaid. Twice has Mr..
Smith been called upon to substantlate
one and another Of his reckless charges
and each time he has utterly failed to
produce even a scintilla Of proof and
yet he continues to scatter them broad
cast as before.
1T Is out of these Investigations and
probably because Of the result of them
that have myself been included with
the rest and in this way 1t Is that he
revises my judicial action in the prem
ises.
ASSIGNING THE CAUSES.
Assign this to diseased imagina-
tion or an unbalanced mind as you will
there Is no room for either in the ranks
Of the profession.
I'VE must abide together as those
who are pursuing high and honor
able calling or not at all, and one who
SO far forgets himself or is so lost tC
the sense of his official obligation tc
his brethren of the bar as well as tC
the Judges. has not only lost his use.
/ fulness, but forfeited his official sta
ton. The law cannot be so malignet
in the persons of those who represent
it, and both bench and bar are en-
titled to be protected against such act
There is no fidelity to client that will
justify or eXterminate them. Justice
is not attained by such methods ant
we do not propose that they shall bt
any longer pursued in this court. They
have been already too long put up with
and endured. The respondent SHOULD
have been debarred three years ago
when he made his attack on Judgt
Connolly and she counsel in the case
The leniency then exercised towards
him has been misrepresented and be
come the basis Of renewed and contin
ued abuse, and 1t Is time that 1t should
be brought to an end.
We should be the subjects Of jus
reprehension If We refused amy longe
to act. K. w. Archibald,
May 25, 1896 president Judge"
SKETCH OF MIR. SMITH.
Mr.. Smith Is 81 years old. He wa
born on Oct. 25, 1889, in the city o
Albany, N. Y, and In 1850 his parent
moved from there to Schuylkill count.
in this state. He attended Freeburl
Academy and New Berlin seminary an,
then took up the study Of law in tn
office of Attorney George Hill, of Sun
bury, Northumberland county.
He was admitted to the bar there II
November 1863. After practicing lay
until January, 1869, when he moved t
Pottsville, at which place he remaine
until anuary, 1869, when he moved t
Scranton and he has lived here since
He figured in many important law suit
and earned reputation for legal abil
ity. He says that he will take the cas-
to the Supreme court.