Sabinal State Bank v. Ebell

This suit was instituted by First State Bank of Sabinal against Ernst Ebell and T. H. Smith on a promissory note for $1,35S, executed by appellees on February 1, 1924. Upon the suggestion of Ebell that the First State Bank was insolvent and defunct, and with the consent of appellant, it was substituted for said First State Bank to whose assets and liabilities it had succeeded. Ebell pleaded duress upon the part of O. E. Freeman, cashier for the First State Bank, who threatened him with prosecution in selling cane seed and corn which was rotten and unwholesome, in violation of a federal law.…