Smith v. Bank of Hamlin

This action was brought by the appellee to set aside and cancel a note and mortgage which she had executed and delivered to the appellant to secure an indebtedness of her son to the appellant. The ground upon which appellee demanded the cancellation of the instruments was that she had been coerced by a threat of an officer of the appellant to' *300cause her son to be sent to the penitentiary if she did not give the security for the debt to the appellant.

The son was engaged in the implement business and did business with the appellant bank, and had once before overdrawn his account with it to the…