Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Pendleton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Judgments. Jurisdiction. Actions. Practice. Mortgages. Waiver. Ratification. Attorneys’ fees. Coi’porations. Before Judge Marshall J. Clarke. Fulton superior court. March term, 189 L. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
The Pendleton Guano Company, a corporation, desiring to borrow nioney from the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company, executed, by its president W. M. Pendleton, and its treasurer E. A. Werner, a promissory note for twenty thousand dollars, payable to the order of Chas. G. Goodrich, cashier, at the Gate City National Bank, Atlanta, Ga. The note was not indorsed by the payee, but was indorsed by W. M. Pendleton, C. K. Maddox and others, all ’of whom were stockholders, and most of them directors, of the corporation, they simply signing their names across the back of the note. All…
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