Conrad v. Johnson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was'an action to recover on two notes for the face value of which plaintiff had been defrauded-by F. C. Wood-bury in his capacity as president of the Citizens State Bank of Sabetha. Woodbury had long pursued a course of frenzied financiering which eventually landed him in the penitentiary (State v. Woodbury, 132 Kan. 22, 294 Pac. 928) and completely wrecked the institution of which he was the head. A partial list of lawsuits *121provoked by this bank’s insolvency includes Trees v. Johnson, 130 Kan. 681, 288 Pac. 587; Masheter v. Carman, 130…