Port Washington State Bank v. Polonia Phonograph Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Ozau-kee county: C. M. Davison, Circuit Judge. The New York Recording Laboratories is a corporation doing business at Grafton, Wisconsin, in the manufacture and sale of phonograph records, and is hereinafter called th.e Laboratories.
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Appeals from a judgment of the circuit court for Ozau-kee county: C. M. Davison, Circuit Judge. The New York Recording Laboratories is a corporation doing business at Grafton, Wisconsin, in the manufacture and sale of phonograph records, and is hereinafter called th.e Laboratories. On July 7, 1921, such company had an account for furnishing records and other articles to the defendant Polonia Phonograph Company and, as it was claimed, to the defendant Kuryer Publishing Company, both of which were Wisconsin corporations with their offices in the same building in Milwaukee. One C. Dziadulewicz…
1Opinion of the CourtEschweiler, J.
The Kuryer Publishing Company urges on its separate appeal that the evidence permits no conclusion other than that its indorsement of the note in suit was for accommodation only; that it had no corporate power or authority to so indorse, or that in any event its treasurer had no power or authority to sign such indorsement so as to bind it. It thereby challenges the eighth and part of the fourth findings of fact above set forth.
The superintendent of the Laboratories testifies that the original contract for the records and other articles was made with both companies. Many of the invoices were…
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