United States America v. Millard Kennedy

This case comes before this court on a certified question from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The facts as set out by that court, and the question, follow: ""FmHA made three emergency loans to Daniel S. Kennedy ('Daniel') on April 25, 1979, in the principal sums of $65,000, $23,600 and $10,850, 1 evidenced by separate promissory notes. Daniel also executed a security agreement covering chattels and crops. 2 On that same date, Daniel's parents, appellees Millard and Glenwodyne B. Kennedy ('the Kennedys'), endorsed Daniel's promissory notes, gave FmHA a second deed to secure debt covering their real property in Webster County, Georgia, and executed a document expressing the voluntariness of this conveyance and their intention to induce FmHA to make the loans to Daniel. 3