Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-04-05

the 1aws ag.l..s :. .as .i.t.at.on
o. public au. -.@ats n"r inc
oficers C-.,'ss- fae duty T ad-
minister~g as.9 }s s. 81.
In re- Nu..# :- S. vas held
tat TO fses.r F.. . a'. 70, ton fa~
rehear.ls r. -s.-.ee.lrj thu YOU
aonors ne.e conferred an unjust de
cree. au. .'ao n ulting matter, is
to comnt -. eoa1 curt ~. re con,
stitutine a contempt On the part OF the
attorney; an HaI w1aro the Ian
guage sDC!irr or written s II itself
necessariY offensive, the disavowal OF
an inten ion to commit CONTEMPT
may tend to eEcrse but cannot justify
the act. From paragraph in that
opinion we quote:
am attCrnav may UNIT himself for
the D actice IF MS profession by the
manner in which he conducts himself
in his intercourse with the courts. He
may be honest and capable, and yet
he NAV SO conduct himself as to contin-
ually interrupt the business of the
courts in which he practices: or he
| NAV bv SYSTEMATIC and continuous
course of conduct. render it impossi-
BILE for the colr is to preserve their
self-respect and the respect of the
public and at the same time permit
him to act as an officer and attorney.
| An attorney who thus studiously and
| Systematically attempts to bring the
tribunals OF Justice into public con-
tempt is an unfit person to hold the
position ard exercise the privileges of
an officer Of those tribunals. An open
notorious and pubic insult to the
| highest judicial tribunal of the State
for which an attorney contumaciously
refuses in arv way to atone. may JUS
tify the refusal Of that tribunal to
recognize him in the future as one of
its officers
In re Cooper. SO VT 262. the re-
spoudent was fined for ironically stat
ing TO q Justice Of the peace, Il think
this magistrate wiser than the Su-
preme court" Redheld, c. J., said:
The counsel must submit III JUS
tice court as we'll as in this court,
and with the same formal respect.
howe, err difficult. it may lie either
here or there"
I'VE do not see that the rerator has
any alternative left him but the sub
mission 10 what .le no doubt regards
as misrepresentation of the law. both
on the part of the Justice and Of this
court. And in that respect he is in a
condition verv similar to manv who
have failed to convince others Of the
soundness Of their own views, or to
became convinced themselves o fthelr
falacy"
In MahOney V. State. = n. f. Isl.
an attorney was fined $50 for saving
| | :
| right or lot van: = knoW whether
am going to be heard in this case in
| the interests Of ;nv clIcIt or ut.
and making other insoient statements
. In Redman V. State IS Ind. the Judge
informed counsel that question was
improper and the attorney replied:
IF we cannot examine cur witnesses
-, he can stand aside" This language
was deemed offensive and the court
prohibited that particular attorney
;, from examining the next witness.
II Brown v Brown " Ind. 12i. the
lawyer was taxed with the cost Of the
action for filing and reading petition
f fer divorce which was unnecessarily
gross and indicate.
a In Mccormick v. Sheridan. 20 P "a
rs. Cal. "A petition for rehearine
+ commission should have so effectuallS
,. and substantially ignored and disre
O garied the Yncontradicted testimony
- We do not know. 1t seems that nei
| Their the transcript nor our briefs
y could have fallen under the commits
:, sioners Observation A more disin
+ eenious and misleading statement o.
4 the evidence cold not well be made
n 1t is substantially untrue and unwar
+ ranted. The decision seems to us tt
# be a trdversitv Of the evidence Hell
g that counsel drafting the petition wa:
It guilty of contempt committed in tn;
n face of the court. notwithstanding
j. disavowal of disrespectful intention
). A fine Of 5000 was imposed with an a
tentative of serving in jail.
e The Chief Justice speaking for tn
v cc-rt in State v. Morrill,. l6 Ark. 81
! said - - so
4, ST it wae the. general habit of tn
h community to denounce degrade. an
II disregard the decisions and Judgment
r Of the courts. no man of self-respec
x and just pride of renu:a IN wn""i re
It /, main upon the oench. and such onl
Q would become TIE ministers or IN
p law al we're insensible to defamation
L and cONLeHEt nut hdoo'. -
e good order Of society. men. an espe'
L iallv the people of this country, ar
to gererallv disDosed to reSoe"f an
Id abide the decisions of the tribunal
Is ordained by government as tho cor
mon arbiters of their rights. BIZ
c. where isolated individuals. In vloif
Isl ton Of the better instincts OF huma
a nature. and oisregardful of law an
t, order, wontanly attempt to obstrut
of ,,e course of public Justice by disrt
,e garding and exciting disrespect fe
IL the decisions o. its trinnn;' 5. ever
ne good citizen will point them out
in proper subjects~for legal anlmadve
sion. =,
q A court must naturally look first
e. an enlightened and conservative pa
u governed by a high sense OF Drofe