Bank of Jasper v. First Nat. Bank of Rome
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. These were actions in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida, brought by the present respondents, respectively, as indorsees of certificates of deposit issued by the respective petitioners. The petitioners pleaded res judicata, based on judgments rendered by the Florida courts in suits to which it had been sought to make the respondents parties through service by publication.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. These were actions in the District Court for the Southern District of Florida, brought by the present respondents, respectively, as indorsees of certificates of deposit issued by the respective petitioners. The petitioners pleaded res judicata, based on judgments rendered by the Florida courts in suits to which it had been sought to make the respondents parties through service by publication. The District Court held the service valid and the judgments conclusive; but the Circuit Court of Appeals held otherwise, and its…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Brandéis
delivered the opinion of the court.
These cases were argued and submitted together. They involve the same questions of law and the essential facts are the same in each. Reference will, therefore, be made only to No. 76.
The First National Bank of Rome, Georgia, endorsee of five certificates of deposit made by the Bank of Jasper, a Florida corporation, sued the maker at law in the federal court for the Southern District of that State. The defendant pleaded in bar seven decrees of the Circuit Court for Hamilton County, Florida,, entered in suits in which the Georgia bank had…
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