Hamburg Bank v. Ouachita Nat. Bank in Monroe

FARIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the Hamburg Bank, a banking corporation organized and operating in the state of Arkansas, and pursuant to the laws thereof, and one Lizzie Blanks, from a decree in equity which adjudged the lien of the bank on certain lands to be inferior to the lien of appellee, a national bank, located, as its name indicates, at Monroe, La. For brevity, we shall refer to the banks as the Hamburg Bank and the Ouachita Bank.

The facts are long and somewhat complicated. But enough of these facts to make clear the questions of law which are up for judgment, run thus: In…