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In re Milne

Supreme Court of Vermont
Sep 13, 1966
222 A.2d 360 (Vt. 1966)

Opinion

Opinion Filed September 13, 1966

Attorney and Client.

1. Forging of names of clients and others on various legal documents and diverting client funds to own use would justify disbarment.

Disbarment Proceedings. Report of committee accepted.

Luke Crispe and Robert Grussing III for Milne.

Louis Peck, Deputy Attorney General, for the State.

June Term, 1966

Present: Holden, C.J., Shangraw, Barney, Smith and Keyser, JJ.


The committee, appointed pursuant to 4 V.S.A. § 844, to investigate the complaint for disbarment presented against the respondent, has heard the cause, and reported that the respondent has forged the names of clients and others on various legal documents. It found that the respondent has diverted funds of his clients to his own use.

At the hearing on the report no objection was presented to the findings of the committee. The report is accepted.

Judgment that Donald G. Milne is removed from the office of attorney and counsellor at law and solicitor in chancery and his name is stricken from the rolls.


Summaries of

In re Milne

Supreme Court of Vermont
Sep 13, 1966
222 A.2d 360 (Vt. 1966)
Case details for

In re Milne

Case Details

Full title:In re Donald G. Milne

Court:Supreme Court of Vermont

Date published: Sep 13, 1966

Citations

222 A.2d 360 (Vt. 1966)
222 A.2d 360

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