First Nat. Bank of Philadelphia v. Farrell
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Action by M. Walter Farrell and others, trading as Weil, Farrell & Co., against the First National Bank of Philadelphia. Judgment for plaintiffs (263 Fed. 778), and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WOODLEY, Circuit Judge.
The judgment brought here by this writ of error was entered by the District Court for.want of a sufficient *373affidavit of defense upon pleadings drawn to state a case of undisputed facts and to present only issues of law. We shall speak of the parties as they stood in the court below, and shall give only the main facts of the case in an endeavor to avoid the confusion which has arisen from the number and complexity of their details.
The plaintiffs had for many years been engaged in the business of selling commercial paper. They operated from a main office in ]’os-ion…
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