A federal appeal of a $5 million judgment against the defunct Buckhead Community Bank over its 2009 collapse has landed in front of the Supreme Court of Georgia on a question of who ultimately should pay.

The state high court will hear oral arguments Tuesday on a question the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit posed on three unsettled matters of state law that it must resolve before it rules on the bank’s two-year-old appeal.