Delmer Smith

Delmer Smith
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Delmer E. Smith lives and works on a farm in Amherst, Michigan. Delmer and his brother Doyle were the only kids of their father and thus heirs to their Uncle Homer Smith. Delmer has family, but a son named Doyce seems to be the only one named.^CAT6 His sister-in-law is Bonnie and his niece is Catalina.

Delmer had a temper and little patience, as testified by the speed which he could fill answering machines and e-mail boxes and the quantity of notes stuck to doors.^CAT12

Catalina's opinion is "He's a sanctimonious prick, and I don't trust him as far as I can throw a fit."^CAT5 Roger Bishop's first impression "put Roger in mind of a weasel -- he had a face that seemed to come to a point at his nose, almost no chin, and a sloped forehead. He was smaller and older than Roger, thinner, nearly bald, wearing blue jeans and a work shirt."^CAT5 Bonnie's opinion of her brother-in-law was "Delmer has never done anything fair in his life if there was something he thought he could get away with."^CAT18

On their father's death, Delmer bought Doyle out of his share for what Bonnie considered "wasn't even worth ten cents on the dollar."^CAT5 When a judge forced the estate to go at Auction, Delmer arranged for the auction to be held at 2:00 am and with the minimal announcements possible by law. Delmer and his lawyer, Harold deBoer, had a secret deal to sell the estate for $400,000 to pay off a $310,000 loan on machinery. Despite the final resulting profit, Delmer still considered Catalina's actions a screw job.^CAT20