Calcasieu Nat. Bank in Lake Charles v. Bank of Abbeville & Trust Co.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, Bank of Abbeville & Trust Company, was awarded a secured judgment in the court below against appellant Calcasieu National Bank, for the aggregate amount of five checks, with interest, drawn on appellant by the Unemployment Relief Committee of Louisiana to the order of Vermillion Unemployment Relief Committee. The first three checks, in the respective sums of $477, $695, and $14.44, for a valuable consideration, were acquired by appellee, a’ Louisiana state bank, by indorsement of the payee, and on March 1, 1933, were forwarded by said bank to the said…