Case Name: BANK OF INVERNESS v. HAYDEN
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1917-03-12
Citations: 239 F. 1020
Docket Number: No. 2931
Parties: BANK OF INVERNESS v. HAYDEN.
Judges: Before PARDEE and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and FOSTER, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 239
Pages: 1020–1020

Head Matter:
BANK OF INVERNESS v. HAYDEN.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
March 12, 1917.)
No. 2931.
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi; Henry C. Niles, Judge. Action by William T. Hayden against the Bank of Inverness. Judgment for the plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
Affirmed.
John W. Cutrer, of Clarksdale, Miss., for plaintiff in error.
Gerald Fitz Gerald, of Clarksdale, Miss., for defendant in error.
Before PARDEE and WALKER, Circuit Judges, and FOSTER, District Judge.
Rehearing denied April 28, 1917.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The suggestion at the bar that th'e District Court was without jurisdiction in this case because the citizenship of the assignor, Dickerson, was not alleged in the record, showing that he could have brought the suit in the federal courts in Mississippi,' if no assignment had been made, is without merit, because we find in the record conclusive evidence that the said Dickerson, assignor, was a citizen of the state of Alabama, therefore he could have brought the suit in the District Court on the chose in action herein sued on if no assignment had been made. On the merits, the case is clear that the plaintiff below was an innocent holder of the certificates sued on before maturity and for value, and therefore not at all liable on the equities sought to be injected in the case. We find none of the assignments of error are well taken and no reversible error patent in the record. Judgment affirmed.