Salitan v. Carter, Ealey and Dinwiddie

HUNTER, Judge.

This is an action by Samuel Salitan and Irving Jacobs, alleged general partners, doing business as Credit Industrial Company, plaintiff-appellant, to recover from defendant-respondent, Carter, Ealey and Dinwiddie, a corporation, on three negotiable trade acceptances in the face amount of $1,544, and interest.

The case was tried to a jury. It was defendant’s contention, among others, in its pleading and throughout the trial that Sterling Materials Company, Inc., the payee of the instruments, was a New York corporation and was not legally qualified to do business in Missouri; that…