FORTIER v. NEW ORLEANS BANK


112 U.S. 439 (1884)

FORTIER v. NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK. NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK v. FORTIER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 1, 1884.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John A. Campbell (Mr. Thomas J. Semmes was with him) for the bank.

Mr. B.F. Jonas (Mr. Henry C. Miller was with him) for Mrs. Fortier.


MR. JUSTICE WOODS delivered the opinion of the court. He stated the facts in the foregoing language, and continued:

It is first assigned for error by Mrs. Fortier, the original defendant, that as the bill was filed in the name of "Albert Baldwin, in his capacity of president of the New Orleans National Bank," against the defendant, who is alleged to be a citizen of Louisiana, it does not appear that the parties were citizens of different States, and, as no other ground...

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