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PETITION FOR RULE OF COURT, ETC.

282 S.W.2d 782 (1955)

Petition for RULE OF COURT ACTIVATING, INTEGRATING AND UNIFYING THE STATE BAR OF TENNESSEE.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

October 7, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred T. Adams, Sr., W. Raymond Denney, John J. Hooker and Thomas Wardlaw Steele, Nashville; Walter P. Armstrong, Jr., Walter Chandler and W. Edward Quick, Memphis; John H. Doughty and Clyde W. Key, Knoxville; Aubrey F. Folts and John C. Goins, Chattanooga; Mayne W. Miller, Johnson City; W. M. Leech, Charlotte; J. Malcolm Shull, Elizabethton; and Allen J. Strawbridge, Dresden, for petition.

Forrest Andrews, John Jennings, Jr. and Wilbur W. Piper, Knoxville; George H. Armistead, Jr., F. A. Berry, Charles L. Cornelius, Maclin P. Davis, Jr., D. L. Lansden, W. E. Norvell, Jr., Jay G. Stephenson, Albert W. Stockell and E. J. Walsh, Nashville; Steven C. Stone, Chattanooga; Samuel O. Bates, Leo Bearman and John S. Montedonico, Memphis; I. D. Beasley, Carthage; Frank N. Bratton, Athens; J.H. Cummings, Woodbury; James H. Epps, Jr., Johnson City; Walter M. Haynes, Winchester; Wm. C. Tipton, Covington, opposed.

TOMLINSON, Justice.

The Bar Association of Tennessee, an unincorporated voluntary association of Tennessee lawyers, has petitioned this Court to adopt a rule integrating the Bar of Tennessee; that is, to order a State-Organized Bar to which every lawyer of the State must belong in order to practice law in this State. Proponents and opponents of the proposed rule orally argued the question on a day previously fixed. Briefs on each side have likewise been submitted...

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