State v. Hintz

In December, 1917, the defendant Herman Hintz acquired title to nine forties of land in Juneau county. *638This land was located in and comprised a part of the Little Yellow Drainage District. It was incumbered by a mortgage in the amount of $2,400. In January, 1918, he applied to Albert Oehlke, a farmer living in Waushara county, who was unacquainted with the land, for a loan of $3,000, to be secured by a mortgage on said land. Oehlke and the defendant were acquaintances of many years’ standing, having at one time lived as neighbors in the same farming community. There is evidence to show, and…