Tatum v. Four Pac Oil & Chemical Corp.

TATE, Judge.

This is a suit by the payee to recover upon two promissory notes dated April 25, 1958, each in the amount of $600 and payable, respectively, six months and one year after the date made. Made defendants are the maker of the note, the Four Pac Oil & Chemical Corporation, and also the defendant corporation’s president, Dudley J. LeBlanc, who had personally endorsed the notes as surety.

The trial court held that the plaintiff had not proved by a preponderance of the evidence that the notes had been issued for any consideration, and the plaintiff appeals from the consequent dismissal of…