Cox

Petition for writ of review to determine the lawfulness of an order of the commissioner of corporations revoking petitioner’s license as a broker.

The petition recites that on the nineteenth day of January, 1923, in accordance with the terms of the Corporate Securities Act, respondent, as commissioner duly issued to said petitioner, Harry P. Cox, a certificate authorizing him to offer for sale, negotiate for the sale of and otherwise deal in securities in the state of California, and generally to carry on the business of a broker in said state for and during the period ending the thirty-first day of December, 1923; that on the twenty-ninth day of April, 1923, peti tioner was served with an order dated the twenty-eighth day of April, 1923, by the commissioner of corporations at the city and county of San Francisco, directing him to show cause why his said license should not be revoked on the grounds charged in the complaint attached to said order to show cause; that a hearing was had by said commissioner of corporations in the city and county of San Francisco, the petitioner appearing in person and by his attorney; that at said hearing evidence was adduced on behalf of said…