Farmers & Merchants State Bank v. Hampton Farmers Elevator Co.

Taylor, C.

Plaintiff brought suit on certain promissory notes aggregating the sum of $13,000, in which it designated the defendant as “Hampton Farmers Elevator Company, a corporation,” and garnisheed the State Bank of Hampton. An answer was interposed in the name of the defendant as named in the complaint which denied the execution of the notes and specifically denied the genuineness of the signatures to the notes. The garnishee disclosed that it had no account with the “Hampton Farmers Elevator Company,” but had $5,878.10 standing to the credit of the “Hampton Farmers Co-operative Elevator…