Pacolet Manufacturing Co. v. Weiss

Bell, Justice.

Sidney Weiss, proceeding as an informer, instituted an action in the superior court of Hall County, Georgia, against Pacolet Manufacturing Company, a South Carolina corporation doing business in the State of Georgia. The object of the suit was to recover a statutory penalty of ten per cent, on sums alleged to have been paid to the defendant by insurers for windstorm damage suffered by the defendant at its manufacturing plant at Gainesville, Georgia, on April 6, 1936. The alleged ground of liability was that the policies of insurance on which the defendant collected for such…