Legal Opinion

Park v. Laurens Cotton Mills

Supreme Court of South Carolina

Decided January 4, 1907PublishedCited by 19 opinions

Before MbmmingER, J., Laurens. Action by Jno. W. Park against Paurens Cotton Mills. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals, on the following exceptions: “I. Because it is respectfully submitted, that his Honor, Judge Aldrich, erred in refusing to strike out, as irrelevant, so much of paragraph four of plaintiff’s complaint, as follows after the word ‘refusal,’ on pages two of the said complaint.

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Before MbmmingER, J., Laurens. Action by Jno. W. Park against Paurens Cotton Mills. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals, on the following exceptions: “I. Because it is respectfully submitted, that his Honor, Judge Aldrich, erred in refusing to strike out, as irrelevant, so much of paragraph four of plaintiff’s complaint, as follows after the word ‘refusal,’ on pages two of the said complaint. That is, all of paragraph four, which alleges what was done by magistrate John M. Hudgens and his agent or constable, and what the defendant did with reference thereto. Also, so much of…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Pope.

This is the second appeal herein (70 S. C., 274, 49 S. E., 871), and involves the constitutionality of the act relating to the books of cotton buyers. Paragraph one of the complaint alleges the corporate existence of the defendant; paragraph two alleges that the plaintiff is the owner of certain land, which he rented to W. K. McDowell for agricultural purposes; and paragraph three alleges that McDowell sold to the defendant one bale of cotton of the value of forty-five dollars, on which the plaintiff held a lien for his rent. The…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Parks v. Laurens Cotton MillsSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1904

3Cited by19 opinions

  1. American Indemnity Co. v. City of AustinTexas Supreme Court · 1922
  2. Colonial Life & Accident Insurance v. South Carolina Tax CommissionSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1958
  3. Lapland v. StearnsNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1952
  4. In Re Gillette Daily JournalWyoming Supreme Court · 1932
  5. Coleman v. LureySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1942

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