Howells State Bank v. Estate of Muller

Shepherd, District Judge.

George E. Muller, who was farming on a comparatively large scale in partnership with his brother Frank, died November 19, 1919, leaving a girl wife and an infant daughter, and leaving about $6,000 worth of personal property, the major portion of which consisted of crops, live stock and farm machinery held in conjunction with his said brother. His debts, together with funeral expense and costs, amounted to a little more than this, as it finally proved.

He had always depended upon the bank in his lifetime and to the bank, which was also his largest creditor, *178straightway…