Winkler v. Ascension Bank & Trust Co.

O’NIEBB, Chief Justice.

Alfred E. Winkler brought this suit against the Ascension Bank & Trust Company for the amount of an alleged equity in seven mortgage notes, amounting to $16,000. He alleged that he had pledged the notes to the bank to secure the payment of his note for $15,000, for a loan made by the bank to him on the 2d of January, 1922; and that he paid $2,-500 on his note in December, 1922, and paid the interest on the balance, $12,500, to the 1st day of January, 1923. Hence he prayed for a judgment against the bank for the amount of the seven mortgage notes, $16,-000, plus the…