Clowney v. Rivers

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

In a case which appears to have been treated as an action for damages for the conversion of 12 bales of cotton, delivered to a state warehouse for storage, the presiding Judge directed a verdict for the plaintiff. From judgment thereon the defendant appeals.

E. M. Blair was manager of State Warehouse No. 696, at Blairs, in' Fairfield County. He was also president of a mercantile establishment at Blairs known as the Blair-Frazier Company. The plaintiff, J. Spratt Clowney, Jr., was a farmer in the same section of the county. In the year…