Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-17
MOVE TO DISBAR A. c. FISHER
Attorney General Thompson Files His
Petition in Supreme Court,
ACTION GROWS OUT OF eOEODE CLAIM
Taken at Request of Legislative Conn
mittee on Claims which Investi-
gated the Affair and
Rejected Claim.
tFrom a star correspondentl

LINCOLN, April l6.-(Special. )-Attorney
General Thompson today filed in the SUI
preme court his information upon which
he bases his application for the disbar-
ment of Allen G. Fisher, an attorney of
Chadron. The proceedings were started
upon the recommendation of the claims
committee of the house of representatives
which Investigated Captain Fishers con-
nection with the Goedde claim against the
state for escheated land. The information
filed is as follows:
l. In a suit in the district court of
Sioux county Nebraska, instituted Febru-
airy %, 1900, TO escheat to the state of Me-
Goedde died seized, but which, under the
terms of a treaty between the United
States and Prussia had, for the purpose Of
Maria Hidden OF Bielefeld, Westphalla,
Prussia, and Albert Goedde of Buren,, West
phalia, Prussia, sister and brother of said
Herman Goedde, deceased, and sole heirs
at law, Allen G. Fisher, while acting in
the capacity of attorney for said heirs,
died for them April l6, 1900, an answer in
which he concealed. Intentionally, the fact
that they were residents of Prussia and
were allowed by treaty to sell their lands
in Sioux county within a reasonable time
and to withdraw the proceeds without mo-
lestation; and the said Allen G. Fisher, as
such attorney, by such concealment Of the
said facts deceived the district court OF
Sioux county into rendering in said suit
October ., 1900, void decree, attempting
to escheat said land to the state of Me-
braska and directing the county treasurer,
county Judge and county clerk of Sioux
county TO appraise the same, to the end
that the heirs might receive from the state
the value thereof.
2 While acting as attorney for said Prus-
sian heirs and having an agreement with
them that he should receive as compensa-
ton for his services all moneys realized in
excess of $1,000. and while the value of
said land was $3.50 and no more, the said
Allen G.. Fisher, before any appraisement
of said land had been made as directed by
hIEfI Wit he Of NNNl-
lie accounts and afterward presented to
the Legislature for allowance during the
session Of 1901, a claim on behalf of said
heirs against the state of Nebraska for
$500 for the value of the said lands, and
said claim was knowingly and unlawfully
verified by the oath of said Allen G.. Fisher
that the appraised value of said land was
5000. and that said claim was valid claim
was unable to secure an appropriation to
pay said claim any part thereof during
the legislative session Of 1901 - !. IL.
T. Though said land was appraised under
said decree at $500, October TO-. 1900, and
the amount Of the original appraisement
was afterward changed by forgery to Sl1,-
500 by the felonious Insertion OF the figure
Il" before the figure '5' In the fsum of
$500 fixed by the appraisers, and the
81 800 and no more, and though the said
Allen c. Fisher had a contract with his
clients. the said heirs, to pay them
tate OF their deceased brother, the said Al
len G. Fisher, February 3, 1903 unlawfully
the auditor OF public accounts another
claim against the state of Nebraska for
81, 800 for the value Of said lands, and to
this claim was attached a purported copy
of the said forged appraisement and the
affidavit Ct the said Allen G. Fisher that
the said claim was valid claim against
the state. which affidavit was untrue and
known to be untrue by said Allen G. Fisher
at the time OF filing the same, and said
claim for Sll,500 was by the said Allen G..
Fisher fraudulently presented to the legis-
lature of 1903 for allowance, and by the
legislature rejected
Clients Not Informed.
4. The said Allen G. Fisher did not
inform his clients. the Goedde heirs In
Germany, OF his said doings in their be-
half in attempting to collect from the
state of Nebraska for the value of their
land in Sioux county the said sums of
$500 and $l1,5O0, respectively, or OF the
value of their said lands but in 1906 offered
to buy from them their said land In Sioux
county for the price or sum OF $3.50, and
sent them a deed to Prussia, which they