Union Bank v. Dunn
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the court of the third district, for the parish of East Feliciana, the judge thereof presiding. This is an action instituted on a promissory note against the maker and indorsers, which had been discounted at the branch of the Union Bank at Clinton.
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Appeal from the court of the third district, for the parish of East Feliciana, the judge thereof presiding. This is an action instituted on a promissory note against the maker and indorsers, which had been discounted at the branch of the Union Bank at Clinton. Tlie petition sets out the name and style of the plaintiffs in the following manner: “ The petition of the president and board of directors of the branch of the Union Bank of Louisiana, at Clinton, &c., whose principal establishment is in the city of New Orleans.” On this petition judgment is prayed against the defendants for the amount…
1Opinion of the CourtMorphv, J.
[236] The plaintiffs are appellants from a judgment sustaining an exception to their right to maintain this action. The petition is in the name of “ the president and board of directors of the Branch of the Union Bank of Louisiana *145at Clinton, whose principal establishment is in the city of New Orleans.” "We think the judge did not err. There is no such corporation known to our laws as that described in the petition; the branches or offices of, discount and deposit created by the act incorporating the Union Bank, are without power or authority to stand in judgment for the mother bank; the…
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