Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1917

Philbrick v. Creed

Philbrick v. Creed
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 21, 1917
228 Mass. 382
Philbrick v. Creed

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Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

This is a bill in equity seeking the disbarment of an attorney at law. It was begun by an ordinary writ of summons and attachment. Such a proceeding cannot be instituted or maintained in this way. Boston Bar Association v. Greenhood, 168 Mass. 169, 182. Boston Bar Association v. Casey, 211 Mass. 187; 227 Mass. 46, 51. Randall, petitioner, 11 Allen, 473. Matter of Allin, 224 Mass. 9.

Decree affirmed.

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