In Re Shattuck

The petitioner herein applies to this court for a review and reversal of the findings, resolution and order of the Board of Governors of The State Bar of California, made and entered upon certain proceedings for her disbarment as an attorney and counselor at law, wherein and after a hearing thereon the said Board of Bar Governors ordered "that the said Maud Stillwell Shattuck, also known as Mary Maud Stillwell, be and she is hereby disbarred and precluded from practicing law in any of the courts of this state, and that her name be stricken from the roll of attorr neys. ’ ’ In view of the fact that this is the first of a number of similar applications to be submitted to this court for its action thereon, and of the further fact that the questions, other than those of fact discussed therein, are in the main identical with those presented in the instant proceeding, we deem it advisable to devote to this a more extended discussion than will be required in later cases brought here for review.

The petition herein is presented under the provisions of section 26 of the State Bar Act (Stats. 1927, p. 38), which provides that “Any person so disbarred or suspended may within sixty days…