Ransom v. Priam Lodge, No. 145

Action by the appellee, as payee, against the appellant, as maker of a promissory note, commenced before *61a justice of the peace, where there was judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff appealed to the circuit court, where the defendant filed an amended answer, denying that the plaintiff was a corporation. To this answer a demurrer was filed by the plaintiff, and sustained by the court.

The defendant concedes that the law is, that one executing a note to a body claiming or purporting to be a corporation is estopped to deny that it was a corporation at the time; but he alleges in his answer,…