Opinion
No. 23315
Opinion Filed July 12, 1933.
(Syllabus.)
1. Attorney and Client — Appeal and Error — Recommendations by Board of Governors of State Bar for Disbarment of Attorney — Scope of Review Where Appellant Falls to File Brief.
In an appeal prosecuted from recommendations of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Oklahoma for disbarment of an attorney, where the petitioner has failed to comply with the requirements of this court as to filing his brief, this court will not summarily dismiss the petition for review, but will examine into the record and approve, modify or disapprove the recommendations of the Board of Governors, as the merits of the case require.
2. Same — Recommendation for Disbarment Approved.
Record examined, and the recommendations of the Board of Governors approved.
Appeal by Troy A. Cargill from action of the Board of Governors of the State Bar recommending the disbarment of Troy A. Cargill. Petition for review dismissed and order of disbarment entered.
T.A. Cargill, for plaintiff in error.
A.W. Rigsby, for defendant in error.
On the 25th day of January, 1932, there was filed in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court a petition for review of the recommendation of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Oklahoma which had theretofore been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court on the 12th day of January, 1932, and in which recommendation the. Board of Governors of the State Bar of Oklahoma declared it their opinion that the said Troy A. Cargill should be disbarred from the practice of law.
Although the petition for review has been filed herein, the petitioner, Troy A. Cargill, has failed to submit any brief or authorities other than his petition for review, which is purely of a formal character.
It is useless to go into a long survey of the testimony and evidence submitted to the Board of Governors, but it is sufficient to say that we have carefully examined the record and the evidence submitted to the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Oklahoma, and find that the evidence amply supports the conclusions of fact arrived at by the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Oklahoma, and we further find that the said Board of Governors was warranted in recommending the disbarment of the said Troy A. Cargill.
It is therefore the order of the court that the recommendation of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of Oklahoma be approved in all respects, and that from and after this time Troy A. Cargill be disbarred from the practice of law in the state of Oklahoma, both in the Supreme Court and all inferior courts.