Attorneys — Proceedings for Disbarment —Dismissal as to Innocent Partner. — A proceeding to disbar several attorneys comprising a firm, for alleged dishonorable and unprofessional conduct, will be dismissed as to one of the partners who is shown to have had no personal knowledge or connection with the wrongs complained of.

Id. — Refutation of Accused Attorneys. —■ In such a proceeding, which is quasi criminal in its nature, the respondents are entitled to the benefit not only of the presumption, but of such proof as is made, of good character and reputation in the consideration of testimony tending to create or leave a doubt as to the fact or intent of their acts.

Id. — Assignment by Insolvent — Payment to Attorney as Creditor. — An insolvent debtor has the right to pay off any creditor, if he desires to do so, though he may intend at the time to make an assignment for the benefit of creditors; and an attorney, who is a creditor of such insolvent, accepting payment either in money or in chattels, even with a knowledge of such intent, if he did it bona fide, receiving only his just due, and if paid in chattels at their fair value, and without intent to return them to the debtor, is not guilty of fraud in the transaction, and his conduct furnishes no ground of disbarment.

Id.— Payment and Acceptance of Attorney’s Fee for Assignment. — The payment by an insolvent debtor and the acceptance by his attorneys of their fee in advance, out of the goods of the insolvent, if the salable value of the goods does not exceed a reasonable fee for the service which might he reasonably anticipated, and the goods are not tó be returned, does not render the parties liable to the charge of a fraudulent conspiracy, or the attorneys who accepted such goods liable to disbarment for accepting them.

Id.—Proper Action of Attorneys for Insolvent—Representing Assignee — Advice to Insolvent. — Attorneys for an insolvent debtor do not improperly become attorneys for the assignee in the conduct of his business as such by defending an action by a creditor against the insolvent and the assignee to set aside the assignment for fraud charged against the insolvent debtor. Nor do they render themselves parties to any acts of concealment of his property, if their advice to him is conditioned upon the good faith of his transactions in the supposed payment of his bona fide debts, and they have no knowledge of any fraudulent acts.

Id. — Inadvertently Representing Creditor and Insolvent. — Attorneys representing a creditor who has a small demand against an insolvent debtor when they become attorneys for such. insolvent respecting his assignment, if they have received no retainer from the creditor, and have acted inadvertently and upon oversight of the claim in their hands when accepting a retaining fee from the insolvent, and have explained the matter to the creditor, who does not complain, will not be disbarred for unprofessional conduct, upon complaint of another creditor.

Id. — Cutting Leaves from Private Memorandum-book of Insolvent. — The cutting out of leaves from a private memorandum-book of an insolvent debtor, which is no part of his assets, and which was not required to be placed in the hands of the assignee, if done by the attorneys of the insolvent, with the consent and knowledge of the assignee, without any fraudulent purpose, but only to be kept by the attorneys of the insolvent for the protection of their client, constitutes no unprofessional conduct or violation of the oaths or duties of the attorneys.