Brown

This is a petition to review the recommendation of the board of governors of The State Bar that petitioner be disbarred.

Four separate proceedings were brought against petitioner before the local administrative committee. In the first case, Mrs. Katherine Egan, a former client of petitioner, charged him with misappropriation of funds. Petitioner was retained by her in June, 1931, for the purpose of filing certain actions to rescind contracts of sale of land, and was paid $125. She also paid him $25 on account of- another action. Petitioner claims that he mailed notices of rescission promptly and thereafter negotiated for a settlement. But on a number of occasions, when questioned as to the progress of the actions, he told Mrs. Egan that the calendar was crowded, and the setting of the case for trial was consequently delayed. In August, 1932, more than a year after petitioner was employed and the money given him, Mrs. Egan discovered that he had not even filed the suits. Thereupon petitioner promised to repay the money advanced, and paid $45 in cash, together with an indorsed check for a further sum, which check was not paid. In January, 1933, an order to show cause was issued…