Bank of Baton Rouge v. Hendrix

PONDER, Justice.

J. S. Brock, State Bank Commissioner, and W. C. Evans, Special Agent, on behalf of the Bank of Baton Rouge, in Liquidation, instituted suit against W. A. Benton, Seid Hendrix and Joseph Gebelin on three promissory notes calling for $350, $210 and $2,500, with interest and attorneys’ fees. From the plaintiff’s petition it appears that the three notes were also signed by the Baton Rouge Sanitary Supply Service and one J. C. Miller as makers with the three defendants herein. The Baton Rouge Sanitary Supply Service was a trade-name under which the defendants were doing business…