Booker v. Wingo
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Norton, J., Spartanburg, This was an action by Martha J. Booker against Robert Wingo. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Justice McGowan.
It seems that in 1884, J. A. Booker, a merchant of Welford, County of Spartanburg, failed in business. He made an assignment of all his property to the defendant, Wingo, for the benefit of his creditors. Booker seems to have thought that if he had a little time, he could pay out, and he prevailed upon the defendant and Samuel Morgan, the father of his wife, the plaintiff, to become his sureties for his debts; and he continued the business as agent of defendant, assignee. Booker alone knew the combination of the safe, in which the…
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