Van Houten v. Van Houten

C. F. Yan Houten was in the produce business. The defendant Edna Crotty Pfaltzgraff was his wife, the plaintiff J. M. Yan Houten his father, and plaintiff E. W. O’Brien his brother-in-law. John Campbell was a banker. C. F. Yan Houten is referred to in the evidence, and will be here, as Cecil, and his former wife as Edna. Cecil seems to have disappeared. Edna attended to the business to some extent when Cecil was absent. On one of these occasions, Campbell told her of an overdraft of about $4,000 that would have to be attended to immediately. She told the plaintiffs about it. They had helped…