| wouldn't listen to anything I had to
say. I told him that he had been playing "big man" for
a long time and now it was time for me to play big. I told him
that I was the only man under heaven who could rent this land and
collect rent for it because I had the deed to it--that I was going
back home and farm it until he went into Chancery Court. The
next night the President of the bank drove over to see me for a
compromise. At first I wouldn't listen to him. He made a
proposition that if I would let him have 20 head of my fine cattle he
would give a release deed both real estate and personal
property. I had a witness to this proposition. He said
that the bank was going broke and that they had to have some
money. I delivered the cattle the next day. The next
morning the bank commissioner from Little Rock came and closed the
doors to this bank. The President then told the commissioner
that anything Dacus would tell him would be a damn lie. In
a day or two, the bank commissioner came over to see all the livestock
and farming tools that the bank had a mortgage on. He began
calling off the number of cattle, horses, mules, and farming tools,
and asked me if that was correct. I told him I thought it was my
turn to talk. I told him, "You know when Moses was
leading the children of Israel and was under the Mosaic law until
Christ came. That was the end of the law to everyone who
believed. The night that the President of the bank came over and
offered to give me a release deed from all indebtedness for 20 head of
my choice cattle, I was free from that mortgage."
That commissioner then turned to his attorney and said that it would
sure be a test case. The attorney answered that it surely
would. The commissioner went ahead and tried to foreclose on me
and take the remainder of my cattle and tools. I was brought up
in court three times and no one from the bank or commissioner came
into court. My lawyer then made them give me a deed
releasing me from all indebtedness like the president of the bank had
promised.
SALESMANSHIP! In the twenties I had another close call. I had made another big crop. When my cotton was all picked 50 |