In Re Lasley

This is an application for reinstatement as an attorney at law.

The petition shows that an order was made admitting petitioner to the bar, but that it was later set aside because of the fraud of petitioner in procuring it. It is under these circumstances that he asks for a reinstatement. In legal effect petitioner has never been an attorney.at law in this state. He, therefore, cannot be “reinstated” as such (In re Mash, 39 Cal. App. 548, 551 [ 179 Pac. 897 ]; In re Stevens, 197 Cal. 408 [ 241 Pac. 88 ]). It is true that in the first of these cases the supreme court recognized an application for reinstatement as an application for admission to the bar. This, however, was after the district court of appeal had granted the application and when the matter was before the higher tribunal upon an application for a transfer. The present proceeding is at quite a different stage. Moreover, while petitioner, in his points and authorities, appears possibly to exhibit a willingness that his petition may be eon sidered as an application for admission, he nevertheless contends that he is entitled to a reinstatement. We are in doubt whether he intends his petition as one for admission, for the…