Pogue v. Bank of Lake Village

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a foreclosure suit brought by the appellee bank to enforce certain notes and mortgages executed by Delta Lumber Company, a corporation, and indorsed in part by the four individual defendants, Mr. and Mrs. Kelly Pogue and Mr. and Mrs. Doyle McBride. Doyle McBride, who is the principal appellant, contended unsuccessfully in the trial court that he was not liable upon a $55,000 note executed by Delta Lumber Company to the bank, because McBride’s name had been indorsed upon the note by Kelly Pogue, as attorney in fact, under the authority of a contract that had…