Cantrell
Bar Assn. of S. F. v. Cantrell
Opinion
lead Opinion
Sturtevant, J.
On the seventeenth day of June, 1921, the petitioner, Russell W. Cantrell, filed a petition in this court asking for a modification of a judgment rendered by this court on the fifth day of October, 1920 ( 49 Cal. App. 468 , [ 193 Pac. 598 ]), which judgment ordered the suspension of the petitioner from his office as an attorney for the period of one year; on the same date he prepared a notice of motion directed to “Perry Evans, Esq., Attorney for Accusant,” and caused said papers to be served on said attorney on the same day. The notice stated that the motion would be made on the twenty-first day of June, 1921, etc. The petition was not verified.- No citation was issued or applied for. On the twenty-first day of June, 1921, at the time and place stated in the notice, the petitioner made his motion through his attorney and the attorney made an informal statement to the court regarding the matter, and offered to read a letter from the district attorney of San Francisco. At this point the court suggested that counsel was proceeding very informally and that the matter should be continued until the eleventh day of July, 1921, and that the matter should, at that time, be presented in…