Ketcham v. Mississippi Outdoor Displays, Inc.

L. A. Smith, Sr., J.,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

Appellant filed suit in tbe Chancery Court of Hinds County for discovery and a decree awarding judgment against Mississippi Outdoor Displays, Inc., Ben S. Lowry, and S. V. Crowe, stockholders, and President and Vice-President, respectively, of tbe corporate appellee, because of a note executed to appellant by tbe corporation through appellee Lowry as President thereof, which was also signed and endorsed by the appellant’s nephew, William Gowdy. He was dead when suit was filed and so was not a defendant in it.

The final decree reveals the…