Aurora Bank v. Hamlin

PREWITT, Judge.

The Aurora Bank brought suit against defendants on two promissory notes. The trial judge, hearing the matter without a jury, entered judgment against defendant Lewis R. Hamlin, on both notes but found in favor of his wife, defendant Nell R. Hamlin, on two separate grounds including that her signing of the notes “was brought about by threats and coercion of plaintiff’s employee.”

In November 1975, the date was not remembered by the witnesses, Mrs. Hamlin returned home after work and when she arrived, a loan officer of the bank was there talking to Mr. Hamlin about several unpaid…