Neal v. Redstone Federal Credit Union

EDWARD N. SCRUGGS, Retired Circuit Judge.

This is a summary judgment case.

Redstone Federal Credit Union, the plaintiff, sued Mr. Neal upon his credit card account and, under count two, on a promissory note executed by the defendant to the plaintiff. The defendant promptly filed his answer which simply denied the material allegations of the plaintiff’s complaint. From this modest situation, what at first appeared to be only a jurisprudential molehill has been elevated through motions and procedural steps into a pleading Mount Everest necessitating a clerk’s record of 122 pages.

Of the issues…