Cleophas v. Walker

On July' 19, 1919, H. 0. Haugen and C. H. Walker executed two promissory notes, payable to the plaintiff-appellant, C. Cleophas, at the Kensett Bank, Kensett, Iowa, in the amounts of $4,260.57 and $5,000, respectively, together with interest. These notes were renewals of original notes, given perhaps as early as 1909. The appellant all that time was a banker at Kensett. IT. O. Haugen, who signed the foregoing notes, was the son-in-law of the other signer, C. IT. Walker, and the nephew of appellant’s sister.

Haugen, it seems, had worked in appellant’s bank at Ken-sett. In 1909, however, Haugen…