Gold Kist, Inc. v. Citizens & Southern National Bank Ex Rel. Estate of Lanham

Cureton, Judge:

Appellant Gold Kist brought suit against respondent Citizens & Southern National Bank, executor of the Estate of J. C. Lanham, for $38,885 owed on an open account for agricultural and farming products. The Lanham estate counterclaimed for actual and punitive damages arising out of fraud and breach of express and implied warranties in the sale of corn seed. The jury returned a verdict of $2,500 for Gold Kist and it appeals. We affirm.

The facts giving rise to the dispute are fairly simple. The decedent’s two sons, James and Butler Lanham, operated the decedent’s 2,000-acre farm…