Flowers v. Price

This is an action for damages on account of certain alleged slanderous statements made of and concerning the plaintiff by an agent of the defendant Price.

Succinctly stated, the complaint alleged that Price in 1938 operated a tobacco sales warehouse in the Town of Darlington, and that on August 28th of that year plaintiff carried a load of tobacco, grown by him and one James Gandy on a share crop basis, to such warehouse for the purpose of having it sold there; that he noticed, in standing around, that defendant’s agent was weighing short the tobacco of others, and that he requested the next…