Marion Distilling Co. v. Ellis

Mrs. E. L. Robey conducted a drug store in Olney, Lincoln county, Missouri, in 1893. She was indebted to the Marion Distilling Company in the sum of about $320. On the eighth day of April a representative of this creditor called upon her for payment of the debt. After some negotiations she executed a chattel mortgage on the stock in trade of her drug store to secure the payment of said debt, upon an understanding that the business should thereafter be conducted for six months by one Northcutt as the representative of the creditor, who should, out of the proceeds, give Mrs. Robey a living.…