Jones v. First Nat. Bank of Oktaha

By written contract C. Jones sold and thereafter' delivered to the First National Bank of Oktaha, Okla., all his cotton crop grown that year upon certain premises by him owned and constituting his homestead. The bank made partial payment to him, declined to pay further, and he brought this action against the bank in the district court of Muskogee county to recover the bauince. The bank, by its pleadings, admitted the debt but by answer and cross-petition sought to set off same against its claim against plaintiff in a much larger amount upon 12 promissory notes due it by the plaintiff, and…