PUBLIC FINANCE CORPORATION OF BATON ROUGE v. JAMES

No. 4967.

119 So.2d 578 (1960)

PUBLIC FINANCE CORPORATION OF BATON ROUGE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Frances M. JAMES, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing denied April 25, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elmo E. Lear, Baton Rouge, for appellant.

Dyer & Parker, Baton Rouge, for appellee.

Before ELLIS, LOTTINGER, TATE, FRUGÉ and LANDRY, Judges.


TATE, Judge.

The plaintiff finance company appeals from the dismissal of its suit to obtain judgment upon a $792 note executed in its favor by the defendant James. The trial court held that this obligation was discharged by James' adjudication as a bankrupt in bankruptcy proceedings filed by him five weeks after he had executed the note.

The sole issue raised by this appeal is the the plaintiff finance company's contention that the liability for this note...

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