Hogan v. Hester Investment Co.

Margaret Hogan, plaintiff, required a mortgage loan of $22,000 on approximately 10 acres of valuable land at the corner of Yan Dyke avenue and the Outer Drive, as extended, in Detroit. Her cousin, Robert Dalton, an attorney, offered the loan to Frank J. Hester, also an attorney. The latter represented himself as the loan agent of his mother, Frances Hester, and his sister, Bernadine Christa, but his exact business arrangements with them are not fully disclosed by the record. Although they are also defendants in the instant case, they did not appear as witnesses. Sheets from Hester’s books…