MATTER OF HILL

No. 91-9502 (Summary Calendar).

981 F.2d 1474 (1993)

In the Matter of J. Lawrence HILL, Debtor. David V. ADLER, Appellant, v. J. Lawrence HILL and Whitney National Bank, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 4, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emile Louis Turner, Jr., Wilber Joseph Babin, Jr., Turner, Young & Hebbler, New Orleans, LA, for appellant.

Stephen Fitchie Cameron, Law Offices of Cecil M. Burglass, Jr., New Orleans, LA, for Hill.

Richard W. Bussoff, Richard Bussoff, W. Reed Smith, Monroe & Lemann, New Orleans, LA, for Whitney Nat. Bank.

Before JONES, DUHÉ and WIENER, Circuit Judges.


WIENER, Circuit Judge:

On appeal from the district court's affirmation of a ruling by the bankruptcy court in the Eastern District of Louisiana, Appellant David V. Adler, trustee of the estate of the Debtor, J. Lawrence Hill, complains that those courts misconstrued the Civil Law meaning of the verb, to hypothecate, as used in a corporate charter provision purporting to restrict alienation of corporate stock, the purported pledge of which is the subject of...

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