Cotton v. Downs

This suit was commenced in the chancery court of Benton County by Henry Cotton against the Benton County Bankers’ Association, the Maryland Casualty Company, and the Protective Rewards Committee of the Arkansas Bankers’ Association, to recover the several standing rewards offered by each of them for the capture and conviction of any bank robber. He alleged that he effected the capture of Perry Ingram and Fred Martin, who robbed the State Bank of Decatur, between one and two o’clock on the afternoon of February 28,1923, and who afterwards pleaded guilty to the crime and were sentenced to serve…