Golden's Foundry & Machine Co. v. Wight

1. A corporation may transact business within its corporate powers in a name other than its legally authorized corporate name. Saunders System v. Drive It Yourself Co., 158 Ga. 1 (123 S. E. 132) ; Home Machine & Foundry Co. v. Davis Foundry & Machine Works, 135 Ga. 18 (3) (68 S. E. 800); McClain v. Georgian Co., 17 Ga. App. 648 (3) (87 S. E. 1090); 14 C. J. 591.

2. The officers of a corporation who transact its business under an assumed or trade name are not liable to a person dealing with them as a corporation in ignorance of this fact for a debt contracted by them under the assumed name,…