Legal Opinion
United States v. Arnold W. Hilgeford
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 22, 1993No. 92-4136PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Hard times and the loss of the family farms in Jay County, Indiana, produced a downward spiral of more desperate and more irrational behavior by the defendant, Arnold W. Hilgeford. By 1984 he had borrowed over one million dollars from Peoples Bank and the Farmer’s Home Administration (FmHA) using the two farms he owned as security for the debt. In that year financial problems engulfed the defendant and the bank foreclosed on the mortgage it held on one of his farms. Peoples Bank then bought the farm at the foreclosure sale and the defendant was evicted.
In April, 1985, the…
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