Johnson v. . Carson

Clare, 0. J.

This is an action for tbe recovery of a penalty of $10 per sack for tbe removal by tbe defendant of 196 bags of cotton-seed meal shipped by tbe Southern Cotton Oil Company to tbe defendant at Bethel, N. C., and removed by him therefrom to bis farm and used thereon, in alleged violation of Re-visal, 3956. Tbe shippers of this identical cotton-seed meal were subjected to the payment of said penalty in Carson v. Bunting, 154 N. C., 530. This is a qui tom action for tbe same penalty against tbe purchaser.

Tbe cotton-seed meal was shipped 8 January, 1909, by tbe Southern Cotton Oil…