The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-09-30
SUPREME COURT
HEARS EGAN PLEA
DISCARDED SIOUX FALLS ATT0R-
NEY APPEARS IN PERSON
BEFORE TRIBUNAL.
REMONsTRANCE ALSO HEARD
Petition for Reinstatement to Prac.
tice and Objections Read and
Court Adjourns.

Pierre, Sept. 23.-George w.
Egan appeared as his own attorney
in the hearing before the supreme
court in which he asks reinstatement
to practice in the courts of this
state. After reading his apology to
the court and his r%etraction of all
charges he has made, and the pro-
test of the Minnehaha county bar
association as to his reinstatement,
Egan in a statement said his petit
ton and application were made in
good faith and his intention was to
fully apologize not only to the SUI
preme court but to all courts of the
state, adding, eff my apology is not
sufficient I am ready to amend the
petition to cover the objection
raised. No client of mine has ever
raised n complaint as to my ac-
ton as an attorney" In the inter-
rogation by Presiding Judge Whiting
Egan declared that he had made his
criticisms of the court in the heat of
anger, "and in cooler de%liberation as
considering the other side of the
case, it grew upon me that the court
could conscientiously decide as it did
on the testimony and record before
them. The possible effect of state
ments on the public was not con-
sidered in making the charges. They
were made IN impulse, and their eff
feet was not considered" The court
took a recess till September 81.
The Bar Association of Minnehaha
county, in which Mr.. Egan lives, or
iginally preferred the charges against
him and was active in the prosecu-
ton, which resulted in his disbar-
ment. This association presented to
the supreme court the following re-
monstrance which the secretary
claims was passed at a meeting Of
t~wenty-one members of the %associa-
ton with only one vote opposing:
BE it further resolved, that it is
County Bar Association that said as
ISOLATION does hereby respectfully
acknowledge receipt of a notice from
the honorable supreme court of this
state to the effect that the petition
of George w. Egan for a modification
of the judgment of disbarment in his
case will be heard by the honorable
court on Wednesday, September FL,
1910.
BE 1t further resolved that it is
the opinion of this association THAI.
while the apology upon which the
present application for r~e-instate-
men is based, is perhaps a full re-
traction of applicants abuse of tie
honorable supreme court and it's
judges, yet it does not purport to be
an apology for his abuse of the en-
cult court and county courts of this
state, and it does not show his fitness
to again become a member of our
honored profession; that applicant
has not shown a state of facts which
would justify a conformation of the
ohenses for which he was disbarrei.
and has not presented to the honor
able supreme court grounds for the
reversal of the two reported cases
In said matter; that, in the opinion
of this association, the reasons Of
said court for disbarring the appM-
cant set forth in % South Dakota
reports. page 47S, for denying appu-
n former petition for reinsta>e-
ment, are al applicable at the present
time as when said opinions were rem
dered.
BE it further resolved, that mas
much as the honorable supreme
court is in full possession of all the
facts, it should be unnecessary for
this association to take further steps
in the matter.
"Be 1t further resolved, that the
secretary of this association transmit
TO the clerk Of the supreme court a
copy Of this resolution"