Southern Electric Steel Company v. The First National Bank of Birmingham

Despite the parties’ silence on the question, we have concluded that this appeal must be dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. Southern Electric Steel Company, on behalf of its insurer, sued First National to recover the proceeds of a number of checks cashed by the Bank over endorsements forged by Southern’s payroll clerk. The complaint, after reciting that both litigants are citizens of Alabama, rests jurisdiction on the ground

that the defendant herein, the First National Bank of Birmingham, is a national banking association, established in the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division,…