Blanc v. Germania Nat. Bank
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Thomas C. W. Ellis, Judge. Action by E. Blanc, as liquidating commissioner of the Aarons-Mendelsohn Company, Limited, against the Germania National Bank. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The defendant bank discounted the ndte of the Aarons-Mendelsohn Company, Limited, the corporation whereof plaintiff is the liquidating commissioner, and received from said corporation, in pledge to secure the note, certain promissory notes and warehouse receipts. The corporation was represented in the transaction by its secretary, wbo alone signed the note and the act of pledge, although the charter required that the notes of the corporation should he signed by the president and countersigned by the secretary. That charter provision, however, had been uniformly ignored in the business of the…
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