Shemwell v. People

The evidence shows that in the fore part of March, 1914, one George W. Gardner held a lease upon and conducted the Harvard Hotel in Denver; that the furniture and personal property in the hotel belonged to him, and was worth some fifteen or twenty thousand dollars, upon which the owner of the building held a chattel mortgage to secure the payment of a note for $5,100.00, and to whom he also owed some eighteen hundred or two thousand dollars for rent then due. Gardner told Cogdell and Roberts,, real estate agents in Denver, that if they had an opportunity, they might trade his equity in the…