Davis v. Rockingham Investment Co.
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of hustings court of city of Roanoke, rendered May 30th, 1892, in the chancery cause wherein the Rockingham Investment Company was complainant and Thomas E. Davis et al. were defendants. The decree being adverse to the latter, they appealed. Opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Lewis, P.,
delivered the opinion of -the court.
The single question to be determined is, whether E. E. Cole, as secretary and treasurer of the Rockingham Investment Company, had authority to endorse the note in the bill mentioned. The note was a negotiable note for $1,000, dated Rovember 10, 1890, made by one George R. Cubben, and payable to the Investment Company twelve months after date, at the office of the Traders’ Loan, Trust and Deposit Company, in the city of Roanoke. On the 16th of September, 1891, the note was sold to the appellant, Davis, in Parkersburg, West Virginia, by H. G. Cole,…
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