Adler v. Cloud

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Pope.

Joseph S. Cloud, a merchant, who had *274been in business for nearly a quarter of a century, and who had a large clothing store at Spartanburg, in this State, and who also had a large clothing store in the city of Charlotte, N. C., having allowed one Dixon to obtain judgment against him for less than $100 (which judgment had been incorrectly reported in a newspaper to be some $8,000), on the 9th day of November, 1891, had his creditors to come upon him with inquiries after his financial ability to meet his paper soon to mature, and,…