253 A.D. 725 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1937
The petitioner was admitted to the bar in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on October 9, 1922, and was admitted to practice in the Court of Appeals of the District on October 10, 1922. ' On June 10, 1928, he applied for admission to the bar of this State without examination, alleging, in his application to the committee on character and fitness in the Second District, that he had practiced in the District of Columbia for five years, thus implying that he had practiced there until October 9, 1927. In the questionnaire filed with his original application to be permitted to practice in the courts of this State, the petitioner stated that he had resided in Washington, District of Columbia, from April 16, 1920, to August 1,1926. During the period between August 1,1926, and April 23,1927, he claimed he resided in Washington, District of Columbia, although from August, 1926, until the present time he had been employed by a publishing house in the State of New York. He claimed “ permanent residence ” in Hollis, Queens county, N. Y., from April 23, 1927, yet in a letter to the chairman of the committee on character and fitness, written in furtherance of his application for a rehearing, made in 1930, he stated that he had retained his “ legal domicile ” in Washington until February, 1928, but on the present application he claims he had retained his domicile in Washington “ definitely through November, 1927;” and that he