Davis v. Citizens-Floyd Bank & Trust Co.

The bank brought suit against John P. Davis and J. Olney Davis, as partners, upon a promissory note. John P. Davis alone defended, filing a plea of no partnership. The trial before the judge without a jury having resulted in a finding and judgment against him, he moved for a new trial on the general grounds only, and, the motion being refused, he excepted.

The evidence showed that with the knowledge and consent of his father, John P. Davis, and in the latter’s office, J. Olney Davis conducted an insurance business under the name of “John P. Davis Insurance Agency,” and that, acting within the…