In Re Scott

On April 21, 1924, petitioner filed his application for admission to the bar, the application being grounded upon a former admission and practice in the state of Arizona. The state board of bar examiners, after due investigation, recommended that petitioner be not admitted, and he asks that we now order his admission, notwithstanding the adverse recommendation.

The only question to be determined is whether petitioner’s case, as shown by affidavits filed in his behalf, is within the provisions of section 279 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which reads, in part: “Any citizen . . . who has been admitted to practice law in the highest court of a sister state, . . . and who, after such admission, has been engaged in practice of law in such state . . . for a period of at least three years within the period of seven years immediately preceding the filing of his application, may be admitted to practice in all the courts of this state, upon the production of his license, and satisfactory evidence that his license has not been revoked and . . . that he has been so engaged in actual practice in such state . . ., as above provided. ...”

Without question, petitioner was admitted to practice…