In Re Weymann

On the fifth day of January, 1927, petitioner filed his application for admission to practice law in this state, the application being based upon a certificate showing his admission to practice law in the state of New York. On the seventh day of November, 1927, the state board of bar examiners filed its report recommending that the application be denied, solely on the ground of insufficient practice for three years within the period of seven years immediately preceding the filing of his application. (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 279.) On the twenty-eighth day of May, 1928, pursuant to notice, the applicant pre seated his motion that he he admitted to practice notwithstanding said adverse recommendation.

It will not be necessary to pass upon the sufficiency of the evidence offered by the applicant to show that he had in fact practiced law for the necessary period of time as claimed by him if, as contended by respondent, this court is now without authority to grant an application of this kind.

The legislature at its session of the year 1927 adopted the, statute known as the “State Bar Act.” (Stats. 1927, p. 38, Deering’s 1927 Supp. to Gen. Laws, Act. 591.) Prior to the organization of…