Spencer v. First Carolinas Joint Stock Land Bank

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. ChiEE Justice Beease.

This was an action for damages in the sum of $10,000.00, $600.00 actual and the balance punitive. The defendants are the First Carolinas Joint Stock Rand Bank of Columbia and R. S. Gibson. The complaint did not so allege, but the record shows that Gibson, in the matters complained of by the plaintiff, was acting as agent of the “land bank.”

The facts, upon which the suit was based, from the viewpoint of the plaintiff, were stated in the complaint as follows: “* * * On, or about October 12, 1930, the plaintiff had stored in gin…