First State Bank of Green's Bayou v. Tanner

PEDEN, Justice.

Plaintiff, referred to herein as the Bank, appeals from the granting of defendants’ motion for an instructed verdict based on the two year statute of limitations in a suit brought to recover proceeds of a check credited to account of depositor but later dishonored. The amended pleading on which the Bank went to trial was filed nearly seven years after occurrence of the matter of which it complains, but its original pleading was filed two years and ten months after the occurrence in question.

Appellant contends it is entitled to prevail under these provisions of Article 5539b,…