Bixby was a rotund man with puffy red cheeks, pale eyes, and a smirk that told anyone around him that he was a snake; perhaps this is why Fargo kept the man at bay. Wasn’t the old cliché perfect in his situation with an untrusting Bixby? Keep your friends close but your enemies closer, which is exactly what Fargo did.
The title of snake was maybe the understatement of the year concerning Bixby Cartwright. Rumor had it that he had obtained Bixby Realty by winning a bet to a woman from Nashville. The woman sued him for harassment because he kept asking her to hand over her fortune. Bixby won. And then five months later she was found dead in her Nashville mansion. The woman hung herself on Valentine’s Day. Almost everyone agreed that Bixby was behind the suicide, but no one could prove it, and nor did they want to. Bottom line was if you messed with Bixby Cartwright, he would mess with you, doubly.