Blocker v. Hundertmark

Mr. Associate Justice Baker

delivered the unanimous Opinion of the Court:

For some years prior to 1940, and during that year up to the time of his death on November 18, 1940, C. W. Kress of New York owned and operated a plantation of about 10,-000 acres of land near Yemassee (Hampton County), South Carolina, which was generally known locally as Buckfield Plantation. The lands were diversified, there being open, farming lands, timber and woods land and swamp lands.

C. Hundertmark was the manager of the plantation, in charge of its office, books, property and activities, except the farming…