On July 4, 1933, 33 year-old Norris Dendy, was killed by a white mob in Clinton, South Carolina. In 1934, a state grand jury declined to indict five of the men believed to have been leaders of the mob. Norris Dendy’s father filed a civil suit against the county. The civil suit invoked a South Carolina anti-lynching statute which could grant exemplary damages to the legal representative of a lynching victim against the county in which the lynching took place. CRRJ is unaware of the outcome of the civil suit.