Baldwin v. Haskell Nat. Bank

For some years before January 28, 1907, J. L. Baldwin had been a customer of the Haskell National Bank. On or before that date he owed the bank several thousand dollars. We gather from the record that the relations between the parties had become mutually unsatisfactory. Baldwin seems to have thbught that the bank was charging him both usurious and excessive interest, while the bank had concluded that his indebtedness to it was excessive, and that for other reasons he was not a desirable customer. After considerable negotiation, it was finally agreed that Baldwin should pay his indebtedness to…