Cantrell

The Bar Association of San Francisco accused Russell W. Cantrell, an attorney and counselor at law, of certain acts in his office as attorney which were alleged to have involved moral turpitude and dishonesty within the scope of subdivision 5 of section 287 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides that an attorney and counselor may be removed or suspended “for the commission of any act involving moral turpitude, dishonesty or corruption, whether the same be committed in the course of his relations as an attorney or counselor at law, or otherwise, and. whether the same constitute a felony or misdemeanor or not; and in the event that such act shall constitute a felony or misdemeanor, conviction thereof in a criminal proceeding shall not be a condition precedent to disbarment or suspension from practice therefor.”

The accusation was in four counts, to one of which a demurrer was sustained. The other three counts may be summarized as follows: First, that the respondent, who was the attorney for the executor and executrix of the will of Alice Wall, a deceased person, after the admission of the will of the decedent to probate, for the purpose of seeking additional employment and…