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# Fessenden Banker Wants $3,260.00 Fr- he Holiday BELDEN, N. D.-Forty-five farmers of Wells and Eddy counties have been served with summonses in a suit for damages for having participated in a fight against the eviction of Christ Weiss, a bachelor, who lost his home through a mortgage foreclosure. The complaint against the forty-five was made by L. R. Baird, receiver of the closed Farmers' Bank of Fessenden, N. D. Weiss' home was foreclosed in February, 1932, but it was not until March 28, 1934, that the Wells county sheriff proceeded to evict Weiss and his two sisters from the home they had lived in for more than forty years. The eviction was carried through despite the moratorium proclaimed in the state by Governor Langer. Six hundred farmers, members of the Farmers' Holiday Association, gathered at the home to enforce the moratorium. After the eviction had taken place, the farmers made the banker's representatives and the sheriff sweep and scrub the house, put the stove up again and build a fire. The summonses, which were drawn up on Dec. 8, 1934, were served just now on the 45 farmers. Baird in his complaint claims that the defendants forcibly entered the premises, after he had rightfully and peacefully taken possession thereof, and in a forceful manner and without authority seized and ejected him therefrom, to his damage in the sum of $640. According to Section 717 of the session laws of the state of North Dakota for the year 1913, for this action the defendants are liable to pay treble the amount or $1,920 and to surrender the possession of the premises to the plaintiff. Besides this, the receiver claims an additional amount of $1,340 or