Harris v. H. C. Talton Wholesale Grocery Co.

Plaintiff is the holder and owner of a promissory note of the defendant corporation, executed and signed by *332its general manager Upon defendant’s refusal to pay the balance due on the note, plaintiff brought this suit.

The defense is three-fold. First, that S. H. McCrary, who signed the note for the corporation, was not authorized to do so by the board of directors, and that the note was made without the knowledge or consent of the stockholders; second, that the note is without consideration; and third, that if it should be held that the note was executed with defendant’s authority, then the…