Bank of Ames v. Lehr
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Major County; M. C. Garber, judge. Creditor’s bill by the Bank of Ames against Henry Lebr and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
SHAKP, C.
It is insisted by plaintiff in error that the chattel mortgages executed by Henry Lehr to the Citizens’ State Bank of Okeene, dated, respectively, January 11, 1908, and May 2, 1908, are void as to the plaintiff in error, who was a judgment creditor of the mortgagor at the time of the execution of said mortgages, because of the fact' that one or both of the subscribing witnesses to said mortgages were officers and stockholders of the mortgagee bank; hence were interested parties and disqualified in law as witnesses. It is agreed in the stipulations that T. H. Grennell, one…
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