Matheson v. McCormac

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Bonham.

On February 2, 1934, there lived in Marlboro County a man we assume of about middle age, Alexander J. Matheson, with his wife and six children of ages from three to eighteen years. He had been married twenty years, was a life-long resident of the county, as was his wife. He had accumulated considerable property and owned a lucrative gasoline and oil business. Without previous notice or warning he left the county on this date with a young woman and neither has since been heard of. Some time before leaving he sold a wholesale grocery…