Kirkland v. Allendale County

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

The presiding Judge, Hon. J. K. Henry, directed a verdict for the plaintiff in an action against Allen-dale County, to' recover exemplary damages in the sum of $2,000, for the lynching of the plaintiff’s intestate, Edward Kirkland. The appeal questions the correctness of that ruling upon grounds which are, in substance, embraced in the contention that the evidence was reasonably susceptible of other inferences than that the death of plaintiff’s intestate ensued as a proximate result of “lynching at the hands of a mob.”

The appellant,…