Blume v. First Nat. Bank of Chicago

This litigation commenced on July 26, 1933. The facts out of which it arose may be summarized as follows:

For many years prior to March 16, 1932, Nicholas Emmerling conducted an undertaking business in Hammond, Indiana. During such time and subsequent thereto James C. Curtis & Company, an Illinois corporation, was engaged in the manufacture of caskets and undertaking equipment and supplies. Nicholas Emmerling was for many years a customer of the Curtis Company. He had a brother, Joseph Emmerling, who died on August 6, 1931. At the time of his death Joseph Emmerling was indebted in the sum of…