7542 | Ga. Ct. App. | Jan 23, 1917
The Midland City Hotel Company filed suit in the city court of Macon against the Palace Market Company, upon a written subscription to capital stock in the plaintiff corporation. The case, on all questions of law and fact, was submitted by agreement to the presiding judge, sitting without a jury. The court rendered a judgment against the defendant for the full amount sued for. Three mixed questions of fact and law,were involved in the ease, to wit: (1) Did the secretary and treasurer of the' Market Company, on the facts in this case, have authority to execute the contract of subscription? (2) Is the Market Company, on the facts of this case, released from liability on its subscription, if in the first instance binding, because of the decision of the court releasing certain subscribers whose subscriptions were necessary to make up the minimum stock authorized by the charter of the plaintiff corporation, and because certain other subscribers were resisting payment of subscriptions to the capital stock in the plaintiff corporation, and because one subscription was payable in
The assignment of error on. the ruling of the trial judge in sustaining the demurrer to the defendant’s answer, set out in the third question, is not presented by exception pendente lite, or by direct exception timely made, and can not be considered. Hawkins v. Studdard, 132 Ga. 265 (63 S.E. 852" court="Ga." date_filed="1909-02-27" href="https://app.midpage.ai/document/hawkins-v-studdard-5576663?utm_source=webapp" opinion_id="5576663">63 S. E. 852, 131 Am. St. R. 190).
Judgment affirmed.