Houghtelin v. Diehl

ADAIR, District Judge.

Defendant Diehl borrowed from the Hazelton State Bank $1,500, securing the loan by chattel mortgage. He later secured other additional loans, which were unsecured, aggregating a large sum. Substantial amounts were also advanced him by appellants, upon whose farm he was a tenant. The respondent bank instituted suit upon these unsecured debts, attaching the same property covered by its chattel mortgage. On the same day Diehl, having enlisted in the army and when about to entrain for service in the World War, delivered to appellants an instrument purporting to be a bill of…