Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-04-25

of public and private rights, nor the
officers Charged va the duty OF ad-
ministerlng them" 12S U. s. 31s.
In re Wooley II Ky 95, It was held
tat to incorporate into petition for
rehearing the statement that Your
i.onors have rendered an unjust de-
cree" and other insulting matter, is
to commit in open court an act con-
shutting contempt on the part OF the
attorney; and hat where the Ian
! guage spoken Or written is of itself
necessarily offensive, the disavowal OF
an intention to commit a contempt
| may tend to excuse but cannot justify
the act. From a paragraph in that
, opinion we quote:
| IAN attorney may unfit himself for
/ the practice of his profession by the
| manner in which he conducts himself
! in his intercourse with the courts. He
may be honest and capable. and yet
he may so conduct himself as to cOntin-
ually interrupt the business of the
| courts in which he practices; or he
! may by systematic and continuous
course of conduct, render it impossi
BILE for the courts 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 and exercise the privileges of
| an officer of those tribunals An open
notorious and pubic insult to the
| highest judicial tribunal Of the State
IL; t1,J1 oIoin g
refuses in any 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. 80 VI. 262. the re-
spondent was fined for ironically stat
ing to justice Of the peace. Il think
/ this magistrate wiser than the Su-
preme court" Redtield, c. J., said:
The counsel must submit in a jus
tice court as we'll as in this court,
and with the same formal respect.
howel er difficult. ii may lie either
here or there"
Eve do not see that the relator has
any alternative left him but the sub
mission to what re no doubt regards
as a misrepresentation of the law. both
on the part Of the justice and of this
court And in that respect he is in a
condition very similar to many who
have failed to convince others of the
soundness of their own views, or TO
became convinced themselves ftheir
falacy."
In Mahoney V. State, 72 n. E Isl.
an attorney was fined $50 for saving
81 want to see whnther the court is
right or ',ot want u know whether
I am going TO be heard in this case in
the interests OF my client or no
! and making other insolent statements
In Redman V. State % Ind the judge
informed counsel that a question was
, improper and the attorney replied
eff we cannot examine our witnesses
he can stand aside" This language
, was deemed offensive and the cour,
prohibited that particular attorney
r from examining the next witness.
{ In Brown v Brown " Ind. 7s7. the
lawyer was taxed with the cost of the
action for filing and reading petition
{ for divorce which was unnecessarily
gross and indicate.
. In Mccormick " Sheridan, 20 P. "a
IS. Cal. "A petition for rehearine
' stated that how or why the honorable
t commission should have so eftectuallJ
: and substantially ignored and disre
3 garded the uncontradicted testimony
. We do not knew. 1t seems that nei
: Their the transcript nor our brieff
y could have fallen under the commits
q sioners observation. A more disn
t genious and misleading statement o
1 the evidence could not we'll be made
, 1t is substantially untrue and unwar
: ranted. The decision seems to us Il
t be traversity of the evidence" Hell
: that counsel drafting the petition wa:
t guilty of contempt committed in the
n face of the court. notwithstanding
l. disavowal of disrespectful intention
. A fine Of $500 was imposed with an a
tentative of serving in Jail.
G The Chief Justice speaking for tn
= court in State v Morrill,. Is Ark. 81
said:
II 'If it was the general habit of tn
l community to denounce. degrade. an
+ disregard the decisions and judgment
r of the courts no man of selt-respeC
X and just pride of renu.a IN w2urd IT
It main upon the bench. and such onl
e would become the ministers of til
: law as were insensibIe TO defamatiO
t and contempt But happily for tn
e good order of society. men. an espet
t. tally the people of this country, ar
o generally disnosod to respect an
d abide the decisions of the tribunal
S ordained by government as he con
mon arbiters of their rights. BIZ
C. where isolated individuals, in Niolf
ton of the better instincts Of huma
nature. and uisregardful of law an
t. order. wontanly attempt to obstrut
II tle course Of public justice by disr'
re garding and exciting disrespect fc
Il the decisions OF its trinuna s. ever
lie good citizen will point them out q
n proper subjects for legal anlmadve
sion.
a A court must naturally look first
e. an enlightened and conservative ba
IL governed by q high sense of prOfe
/: siohal ethics and deeply sensible, {
d they always are. of its necessity
Of aid in the maintenance of public re