Legal Opinion
Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. v. Champagne
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided May 8, 1928PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLeche, J.
Plaintiff as holder in due course, sues uipon a note of Charles J. Champagne for the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, of date December 13, 1926, due six months after date to the order of Peoples Bank & Trust Company, endorsed in blank by said Bank, and payable at its office in Houma, Louisiana.
Charles J. Champagne maker of the note has since died and his heirs have been made defendants in the suit.
The defendants offer as special defenses: 1, want of consideration; 2, that if any consideration was given that the said Peoples Bank & Trust Co. is a creditor of defendants in a large amount and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- People's Bank in Liquidation v. Mississippi & Lafourche Drainage Dist.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1917
- Yowell v. WalkerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
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