Des Champs v. Bishopville National Bank

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Cothran.

This is an appeal from an order of his Honor Judge Townsend sustaining a demurrer to the complaint.

The facts, as we gather them from the allegations of the complaint, are substantially these:

During the year 1920 the plaintiff, Des Champs, was indebted to the defendant bank, for borrowed money, in the sum of $6,000. He was unable to meet his obligation at maturity, as he declares, “because of the depressed market and financial conditions then obtaining.” About the first of the year 1921 the plaintiff had on hand 40 bales of cotton,…