Witter v. Grand Rapids Flouring Mill Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. Action to foreclose a mortgage given to secure the payment of a note for $10,000. Both the note and mortgage were signed, “ Ground Rapids Flouring Mill Company, by George A. Reeves, President, Wm. B. Reeves, Secretary,” followed by the individual names of George A. Reeves and Wm. B. Reeves, who, as the trial court found, signed as sureties. The seal of the corporation was also affixed to the mortgage.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Brown County. Action to foreclose a mortgage given to secure the payment of a note for $10,000. Both the note and mortgage were signed, “ Ground Rapids Flouring Mill Company, by George A. Reeves, President, Wm. B. Reeves, Secretary,” followed by the individual names of George A. Reeves and Wm. B. Reeves, who, as the trial court found, signed as sureties. The seal of the corporation was also affixed to the mortgage. The corporate stock of the defendant company consisted of 1,200 shares of the par value of $25 each, of which, at the time of the execution of the…
1Opinion of the CourtTatloe, J.
This is an action to foreclose a mortgage purporting to have been given by the Grand Rapids Flouring Mill Company to the plaintiff to secure the payment of the promissory note of said company given to said plaintiff for the sum of $10,000. The defendants Heeves are made parties to the action because they signed the note individually as sureties for the- company. The flouring mill *545company is a corporation duly organized under the laws of this state. The answer of the defendants admits the fact that the company is a corporation and was such when the mortgage was given.
Upon the trial of the…
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