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RESOLUTION
MELENCIO-HERRERA, J.:
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9 Seddal vs. Keating, 8 App. Div. 2d 44, 185 NYS 2d 630, affd 7 NY 2d
846, 196 NYS 2d 986, 164 NE 2d 860.
10 Section 16-A, Commonwealth Act No. 342.
11 In re Crawford’s Estate, 184 NE 2d 779, 783.
12 H.S. Drinker, Legal Ethics (1953), p. 206; see also Canon 33, par. 2,
Canons of Professional Ethics.
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reliability.
3. A relation to clients in the highest degree fiduciary.
4. A relation to colleagues at the bar characterized by
candor, fairness, and unwillingness to resort to current
business methods of advertising and encroachment 13
on
their practice, or dealing directly with their clients.”
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“The continued use of a firm name after the death of one or more
of the partners designated by it is proper only where sustained by
local custom and not where by custom this purports to identify the
active members. x x x
“There would seem to be a question, under the working of the
Canon, as to the propriety of adding the name of a new partner
and at the same time retaining that of a deceased partner who
was never a partner with the new one.” (H.S. Drinker, op. cit.,
supra, at pp. 207-208) (Italics supplied).
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x x x x x x x x x
“Neither the Partnership Law nor the Penal Law prohibits the
practice in question. The use of the firm name herein 18is also
sustainable by reason of agreement between the partners.”
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CERTIFICATION
FERNANDO C.J.:
The petitions are denied, as there are only four votes for
granting them, seven of the Justices being of the contrary
view, as explained in the plurality opinion of Justice
Ameur-
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DISSENTING OPINION
AQUINO, J.:
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