Meyer v. Osoline Chemical Co.

His Honor, JOHN ST. PAUL,

rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:

Plaintiff brought suit, and defendant was duly cited. On the very day a default became due, but before the opening of Court, some unnamed, unidentified, messenger presented to the Clerk and asked to have filed a dilatory-exception in which the corporation attempted to appear in propria persona; that is to say, said pleading contained the name of the corporation only, in the body thereof, and was signed with the name of the corporation “per M. B.,” presumably the initials of some one’s name that one being also…