Salisbury, Sept. 22—Compensatory damages, 1 cent; punitive and vindictive damages, 1 cent. This is the amount given by a Rowan County jury to Mrs. Woodington for sufferings and other damages she sustained on account of W.A. Roseman, a local merchant, selling her husband extracts that caused intoxication. She sued Roseman for $10,000 for alienating her husband’s affections and the case consumed two days in Superior Court. After deliberation for two hours the jury answered all issues in favor of the plaintiff, deciding that Roseman sold Woodington extracts and intoxicating liquids, that they produced intoxication and that Mrs. Woodington as a consequence suffered injury in personal and property rights, and that she was entitled to one cent compensatory damage and one cent punitive and vindictive damage.
From the Front page of The Charlotte News, Thursday, Sept. 22, 1921
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