Wolcott v. Standley

This suit was originally brought in the Cass Circuit Court, by “ William H. Standley, as president of the People’s Bank of Logansport, Indiana, a firm comprised of William H. Standley, William H. Whitesides, Josephus Atkinson, Joseph Uhl, and E. R. Thompson, a firm doing a general banking business, who sues as president of said bank and for the benefit of the firm,” upon a promissory note made by the appellants, payable to the order of the appellee by the name and style of “ W. EL Standley, Pres.”

A demurrer to the complaint, alleging as grounds—

1. A defect of parties, in not making William EL…