Sabine State Bank & Trust Co. v. Schoonmaker

DAWKINS, District Judge.

This suit was brought originally in the state court for Sabine Parish, upon a note for the sum of $5,000, dated December 22, 1943, due sixty days after date, bearing interest at 8 per cent, and 10 per cent attorneys’ fees, if placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. The petition alleged that it was signed by both defendant and one J. L. Spier, but the former alone was named as a defendant; that Schoonmaker was a nonresident of the state and the right to sue Spier was reserved. The prayer was for the issuance of a writ of attachment and service of the…