Hansbrough v. D. W. Standrod & Co.

T. BAILEY LEE, District Judge.

On November 24, 1921, Swauger Brothers, a copartnership consisting of F. P., F. A. and O. H. Swauger, was indebted to D. W. Standrod & Co., a banking corporation, hereinafter for convenience termed the bank, in an aggregate sum of #52,000, besides interest, evidenced by their individual promissory notes secured by four chattel mortgages covering sheep and other personalty.

Being advised that John W. and Cecilia M. Swauger, father and mother of said copartners, had, as pretended and fraudulent mortgagees of said property, seized the whole thereof and advertised the…