In Re Peairs

Respondent Howard A. Peairs is a judge of the superior court of the state of California in and for the county of Kem. He has held that position since 3913, first under appointment by the governor and afterward by successive elections by the people of the county. Judge Peairs, by appropriate order of a competent court was, in 3908, licensed to practice law in all the courts of the state. The order was made upon a written statement of two members of the bar to the effect that respondent had been admitted by the highest court of Kansas to practice law in all the courts of that state. 'Petitioners allege that respondent never was admitted to the bar by the highest court of Kansas, that he procured the statement to that effect to be made, knowing it to be false, with the fraudulent intent to deceive and mislead the tribunal to which was made his application for admission to the bar of California, and that the court was thereby misled into making the order admitting him. Petitioners allege that they “now are and for a period of more than twenty years last past have been attorneys and counselors at law, . . . duly admitted to practice in all the courts of this state, and make this…