J.P. Bishop Says He Lost His Business When He Refused to Give Bootleggers a Car to Haul Whiskey, Aug. 29, 1925

Wouldn’t Furnish Auto for Hauling of Liquor. . . Greensboro Man Alleges Financial Support Was Withdrawn and That He Lost Business

Greensboro, Aug. 28—J.P. Bishop in complaint filed today in a suit instituted in Guilford Superior court clerk’s office against the Commercial Investment Company, alleges the most unique reason for damages yet brought in this court—that is credit was hurt because he refused to furnish an agent of the defendant with a car in which to haul whiskey. Bishop, who was president of a motor company, states in the complaint that when he refused to let the agent have a car for booze purposes, the latter telegraphed his company to cut off financial protection from the plaintiff, and that was done to the plaintiff’s financial embarrassment; that as a result sale of cars fell off 50 per cent and it was necessary for him to quit doing business. The plaintiff asks for $15,000 damages.

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 29, 1925

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