Affidavit required on the part of plaintiff

 

What’s inside boxes in a storage unit on Hilton Head Island was the focus of arguments this afternoon in an Oconee courtroom.  The boxes belong to Debi Baker Brookshire, plaintiff in a lawsuit against Community First Bank and ex-banker Benjamin Hiott.  An attorney for Community First argued that the contents of, perhaps, 200 boxes should be discoverable as part of the bank’s defense.  The boxes were said to have been turned over to Brooskhire by Hiott, who once acted as the Hilton Head Island woman’s power of attorney.    But Brookshire lawyer David Scott said his side has already produced documents responsive to discovery.  Judge Cordell Maddox instructed Scott to have his client sign an affidavit to that effect.  The case, which remains at the pre-trial level, is a dispute over whether Brookshire was deprived of a $1.1 million trust which she left under the control of Hiott, as a Community First banker,