Haynes v. Farmers & Merchants State Bank

Shepherd, District Judge.

Beauchamp and Winter, the former a salesman and the latter the president and manager of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Wahoo, engaged in the automobile business, conducting the same in the name of E. K. Beau-champ'. In the latter part of 1920 the business needed money and it was procured by getting Mrs. Haynes, who was Beauchamp’s mother-in-law, to sign notes. She signed so many in the course of a short two years that on the 12th day of December, 1922, Winter, in whose bank said notes seem to have been congregated, persuaded her to sign a $20,000 mortgage to secure…