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Hong Kong Telegraph 1907-09-04

JUDGE WILFLEY AND THE AMERICAN BAR. LAWYER CURTIS FINED. Respondent H.A.C. Emery is here charged with contempt of court in this that he disregarded and disobeyed an order of this Conrt directing him to appear before it and give an account of his administration of his father's estate, of which he was executor. JUDGE WILFLEY AND THE AMBRI CAN BAR. In view of the foregoing facts, the action of Mr Emery in not appearing before the Court between the sixteenth and twenty-first of August is reprehensible, and the action of Mr. Curtis in undertaking to represent Mr. Emery in violation of the rule of C…