Missouri Court of Appeals May 9, 1978, 39084 (Citizens Bank of University City v. Gehl)

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

When defendant-borrower failed to appear for trial the court awarded plaintiff-bank actual and punitive damages for defendant’s fraud in obtaining a loan from

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plaintiff. Defendant has appealed from denial of his motion to set aside.

In June of 1973 defendant, a chiropractor, applied to plaintiff for a $38,261 loan to purchase an x-ray machine.