Dolley

This matter came on for hearing July 21, 1924. At the conclusion of the hearing, wherein an attorney for respondents was accused of acts constituting contempt of court, the decision of the court was announced orally by the presiding justice, as follows:

Mr. George P. Adams was herein charged with misconduct, in wrongfully misrepresenting the facts in the record, such alleged misrepresentations being contained in his brief for respondents. The court examined the petition very promptly after its filing, and made a statement which was made a matter of record, that the whole matter was beyond the jurisdiction of this court, except in so far as there were any charges of misconduct amounting to contempt of this court. There were positive statements made in the petition that the respondents’ brief filed by Mr. Adams contained false statements concerning the record, known by Mr. Adams to have been false. Of course, where a statement is made under oath by one purporting to inform the court of acts of that kind, the court is not justified in ignoring them, even though (as in this case happens to be true), the attorney against whom the charges have been made is one in whom the judges of the…