Does C.P. Barringer Have Upright Character Required to Become Lawyer? Aug.28, 1926

Labor Leader Subjected to a Moral Charge. . . Everhardt Alleges Barringer is Guilty of False and Fraudulent Misrepresentation

By Brock Barkley, Charlotte Observer

Raleigh, Aug. 27—The name of C. P. Barringer, president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor, was omitted from the list of 108 new law licenses this afternoon when the Supreme Court refused to permit the withdrawal of a protest against him filed by O. K. Everhardt of Salisbury, and alleging want of “upright or moral character as required by statute.”

In holding up his license, the court notified Barringer that he would be allowed until September 4 to file an answer to the the protest. In the event an answer is filed, a date will be set for a hearing.

Although, in accordance with the rules of the court, no public notice of the protest was given until it had been determined today that Barringer passe the bar examination held Monday, the protest was filed with the clerk of Supreme Court more than a week ago. A few days after it had been field Everhardt, following, it is understood, a conference with Barringer, requested that it be withdrawn. But the court denied the request because of “the nature of the protest.”

Everhardt alleged specifically in an affidavit filed with the court that Barringer obtained $465 from him by “false and fraudulent misrepresentations of facts,” in that he represented properly on which he gave a mortgage to secure the money to be free from encumbrance when in fact there were already two other mortgages on the property, and the sale of it did not yield a sufficient sum to pay them all off. Everhardt gave notice that he had brought suit in Rowan county superior court to recover the amount, and a copy of his complaint was filed with his protest.

The transaction of which Everhardt complains took place during the latter part of 1924, according to the copy of the complaint filed with the protest.

Barringer, who has long been prominent in labor circles, is now serving his second term as president of the State Federation of Labor, having been re-elected at the annual convention a few weeks ago. He studied law at Wake Forest College, completing the course at the last term.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Aug. 28, 1926

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