Longton State Bank v. Murphy

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff bank sued the defendant, S. Murphy, for certain moneys advanced to C. L. Murphy, a son of the defendant, pursuant to an alleged oral agreement between plaintiff and defendant.

In behalf of the bank, the evidence tended to show that defendant is a man of substantial means, a stockholder and director of the *351plaintiff bank, and was for some time its vice president. In 1913, C. L. Murphy, son of the defendant, was a young man of small means, recently married; and his father was ambitious that the son should expand his business…