Should C. P. Barringer Be Allowed a License to Practice Law in N.C.? Sept. 11, 1926

Barringer Case Will be Pressed. .. Wagoner Informs Supreme Court He Can Prove Charge Against Labor Head

Raleigh News and Observer

With the protestant allowed until Monday to file a reply to the answer already in the record and the case set for hearing on Thursday, September 30th, there is every indication of a likely fight over the hearing to be held by the Supreme Court to determine whether or not C. P. Barringer, president of the North Carolina Federation of Labor, possesses sufficient moral character to be granted a license to practice law in North Carolina, Barringer passed the examination held on August 23rd, but his license was held up pending the inquiry into his character.

The protest was filed by J. M. Wagoner, Salisbury attorney, in behalf of O. K. Everhardt, an affidavit alleging that Barringer had defendant Everhardt by borrowing money on a second mortgage which purported to be a first mortgage on real estate.

Later the note was paid off and Wagoner attempted to withdraw the protest, the court declining to permit this course to be taken.

Barringer filed an answer in which he stated he stated the protest was merely a scheme to collect the debt and that Everhardt would not have signed the protest had he known its effect and had he known what was therein contained.

Wagoner has come back with a letter in which he says Barringer has attempted to get Everhardt to change his position, but that Everhardt will appear and testify before the court.

The new charge against Barringer is contained in the following paragraph of the Wagoner letter to the court:

“The matter contained in the affidavit and complaint filed by my client, G. K. Everhardt, have facts, and Mr. Everhardt states that he is prepared to back up the matters sworn to in the affidavit and complaint, and that if required he will appear at any place designated by the court and give his evidence. Barringer has requested and tried to persuade him to make another affidavit to the effect that the matters sworn to in the complaint and affidavit were untrue, which Mr. Everhardt states he refused to do.”

From page 2 of the Concord Daily Tribune, Sept. 11, 1926

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