Cook v. Merchants & Savings Bank

The claim presented in this case is one of the most extravagant that has come to this court during the last thirty years and perhaps during its entire history.

In the month of August, 1935, claimant went to the Y. W. C. A. in Janesville and was informed that the decedent wanted to hire a middle-aged woman to work on the farm. The following Sunday, claimant went to the Bingham farm. 1 She saw the decedent raking in the yard and went with her to the porch for a conference with Lucy Bingham and Ed Bingham, the owners of the farm. The following morning, August 5, 1935, she returned to the farm and…