Hotel Lanier Co. v. Johnson

The administratrix of Edward C. Johnson brought an action against the Hotel Lanier Company, a partnership, as maker, and H. S. Morse, as indorser, upon two promissory notes payable to the order of the latter. Each of these notes was dated January 2d, 1894, due generally “after date,” and signed “ Hotel Lanier Co., by Sam Altmayer, secty. & treas.” The Hotel Company pleaded, in substance, that the notes sued on were not executed by it, nor by any person authorized by it to do so;. that if the same were executed in the name of the company by Altmayer, his act in so doing was not the act of the…