Davenport v. WOODSIDE COTTON MILLS CO. INC.

Stitices, Justice.

Respondent recovered verdict and judgment against appellant for $2,235.00 actual damages and $1,765.00 punitive damages; and the appeal is only from the court’s refusal of motions to eliminate punitive damages. There is no appeal from the verdict and judgment insofar as the award of actual damages is concerned.

Respondent, a Negro, owned and operated a small farm near the town of Simpsonville, where appellant had a textile plant. He mainly raised and sold hogs, of which he had a herd of about seventy-five in number. For years he had fed them garbage which he obtained from the…