The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-18
Woman Says Treatment Has
Made Her an Invalid.
"THROWN OUT OF OWN HOME"
Mrs. F. M. Shanklin Says Bank
Turned Her Out in Cold.
HNOthing to It-All q Hold Up,
Replies Bank Attorney.

Petitions for damage suits aggre-
eating $62,0 were filed today in the
Shawnee county district court py
Frank M. Shanklin and Carrie M.
Shanklin, against the German-Amer-
ican State bank Of this city. one OF
the petitions, filed by Carrie M.
Shanklin. amounts to $4,000 and al
leges that owing to treatment received
at the hands of watchman OF tne
bank at her home on West street sne
has become permanently Ill ana mas
suffered bodily pain and injury. re
tition No. 2, is filed by Frank M.
Shanklin and asks $4,000 damages
for the loss of the companionship. and
society of his wife, for medical aid
which he claims he was forced to OBJ
tain for her and for punitive damages.
Petition No. 3, is also filed by Frank
NJ. Shanklin in which the plaintiff al
leges that he German american state
bank refused to deliver to him house
hold goods which it is alleged was
owned by the plaintiff. 1t is also
claimed in petition No. 8, that the
defendant illegally converted certain
property belonging to the plaintln
to its own USE Shanklin asks $4,000
fer the value of the property and
$4,000 for the .-'egal acts of the bank.
In petition No. 1 it is alleged by the
plaintiff. Carrie NJ. Shanklin. that on OF
about the first day Of April. 1914, when
the plaintiff returned to her home on
West street, she found watchman
asleep in her house. However. accord
ing to the petition. before she discov-
cred the man, she took on her heavy
wraps and started to perform her
household duties.
She claims that the watchman
forcibly and violently seized her and
roughly elected her from her home.
slammed the door in her face and
locked 1t. She claims that she was
thinly clad and asked the man to give
her her clothes which he refused to do
Col1. She Was J1As = :; Cad.
The weather at this time. according
to her story. was extremely cold and
raw. and with all her warm clothes in
the house and herself thinly clad she
went to the barn to be more comfort
able. Here she claims that she re-
mained for about three hours and then
went to a neighbors to locate her hus-
band by telephone.
She at last found him and says that a
short time after her husband came
home accompanied by Theodore c.
Mueller. president of the bank. and
George p. Benson, cashier, and the Of
ficials of the bank told her that they
had placed the man in the house with
instructions to keep everybody out who
tried to enter
The petition also alleges that the
officials or employees of the bank en-
tered the house and lighted fires and
lamps and took charge Of the place.
Mrs. Shanklin claims that she was
i'll and continued so and has become
a permanent invalid as a result of the
treatment, and that she has suffered
bodily pain, shame, humiliation and
disgrace by being turned out of her
home.
She alleges that the acts of the
plaintiffs officers and EMPLOYEES
were illegal and malicious and asks
$4,000 for illegal and malicious acts
and $4,000 for injuries and suffer
ing
Frank M. Shanklin is the plaintiff
in the $4,000 damage suit and the
one for $1,000.
Its hold up. There is nothing
to the story of the plaintiffs" said at
torneys Tor the German-American
State bank when asked for a state
ment regarding the suit today.