O'Shee v. Pierce

LE BLANC, Justice.

Certiorari was granted in this case on the representation made in the application for writs that plaintiff was not a holder in due course of the note sued on, having acquired it an unreasonable time after maturity, and was subject to the defense of payment alleged to have been made to the payees; that as a result the note had lost its character of negotiability regardless of the time when the alleged payment had been made and its transfer to the plaintiff became an assignment governed by Civil-Code, 'Articles 2642-2645 and more particularly, Article 2643 under which the…