Weihl v. Robertson

The records in these consolidated causes present a. series of transactions which are certainly unique in character. The defendant, C. P. Robertson, seems at one time to have been a man of some mercantile reputation in the city of Chattanooga. Whether as the result of bad habits or not does not appear, but he finally passed out of business, and at the same time his condition was such that for awhile he was under treatment in a sanitarium or asylum. On his release, his need of money being great, a plan, according to his statement, was submitted to him for raising enough to relieve this need.…