Johns v. Williams

MADDOX, Justice.

The real issue involved in this case was whether the defendant bank had fraudulently failed to obtain credit life insurance on one of its debtors.

*299Georgia Hammonds Johns, formerly Georgia Hammonds, filed suit against the bank and its vice-president and sought (1) to set aside a mortgage foreclosure, (2) to set aside a judgment in a detinue suit in which the bank recovered items of personal property used for collateral, and (3) to recover punitive damages.

Complainant claimed that the bank fraudulently failed to obtain credit life insurance on her late husband, James E. Hammonds,…