Jamestown Banking Co. v. Conneaut Lake Dock & Dredge Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Maxey,

Appellee Harshaw was a partner in a firm known as Conneaut Lake Dock and Dredge Company, of which the other three members were Holcomb, Ehrhart and McMasters. A judgment was entered by confession against all four partners on notes containing warrants of attorney signed, not by appellee, but by Holcomb and Ehrhart, on behalf of the firm. On Harshaw’s petition the court below opened the judgment, whereupon this appeal was taken.

The Conneaut Lake Improvement Company was the maker of the two notes on which judgment was entered, totalling $4,826.56. This was also a…