Pease v. Citizens State Bank

Plaintiff’s petition, filed January 30, 1924, is in five counts, each of which involves a loan made to a different borrower. Count 3 is the only count to which this appeal relates, as the jury found in favor of the defendant-bank on the other four counts. The controversy in question involves what is known in the record as the Loren Dunbar loan. The primary and controlling propositions relied upon for a reversal have to do with certain matters contained in the defendant’s motion for new trial, involving certain instructions given and the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict.…