Opinion

Acton v. Board of Commissioners

  • 283 Ala. 121
  • 214 So. 2d 685
  • 1968 Ala. LEXIS 992
Court
Supreme Court of Alabama
Filed
Jun 6, 1968
Status
Published
Author
Lawson
On the bench
Coleman, Harwood, Kohn, Lawson, Livingston, Merrill, Simpson
Cited by
17 cases
Authority
More cited than 24.2%

pointing out the differences between maintenance without divorce and a divorce judgment for alimony

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  • pointing out the differences between maintenance without divorce and a divorce judgment for alimony

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The opinion

LAWSON, Justice

(dissenting).

If the Court’s opinion is based on a holding to the effect that the burden was on the petitioner here to prove his innocence of the charges directed against him, then I would feel compelled to dissent. Re Disbarment of Charles E. Gorsuch, 76 S.D. 191 , 75 N.W.2d 644 , 57 A.L.R.2d 1355 . But I am not certain of the exact holding of the Court on that question.

That question aside, I feel that the action of the Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar should be reversed in that I am not reasonably satisfied from the evidence that petitioner is guilty of the charges made the basis of his suspension.

SIMPSON, J., concurs in the foregoing dissent.

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