The Orange National Bank of Orange v. Bank of Louisiana in New Orleans

MOORE, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal by plaintiff from a judgment for defendant entered in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in a suit on an instrument alleged to be negotiable, after Hon. Herbert W. Christen-berry, Chief Judge, had denied plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and granted defendant’s motion to dismiss the complaint.

The case came before the court (1) upon plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, Rule 56(a), based upon the pleadings (complaint, answer and counterclaim), an affidavit of plaintiff’s President, and a statement in support of…