Homan v. Hirsch

This is a suit to foreclose as a mortgage a deed purporting on its face absolutely to convey to the plaintiff certain city lots at Ontario, Oregon. About June, 1919, the defendant Hirsch began to transact business with the Ontario National Bank. In the main the usual course of business was for him to draw drafts on some party in Wisconsin, generally P. L. Ooerling, which drafts he would .deposit with the bank and afterwards draw checks against them as upon a cash deposit. This method of business continued until February of the following year, the drafts increasing in size and frequency.…