42 Ga. App. 340 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1930
Tollison-Davenport Company brought an action in the city court of Savannah against A. S. Carr, J. D. Stewart, and The A. S. Carr Company, a corporation, to recover $1076.18, with interest and attorney’s fees, evidenced by a joint and several promissory note, payable to the order of the plaintiff, signed, “Appling Turpentine Company, by A. S. Carr,” and indorsed, “The A. S. Carr Company, by A. S. Carr.” The petition alleges that the several defendants were engaged in business under the trade name of Appling Turpentine Company, and that the defendants were indebted to the plaintiff upon the note.- The defendants A. S. Carr and The A. S. Carr Company, a corporation, filed separate pleas and answers denying that any partnership had ever existed between A. S. Carr, J. D. Stewart, and The A. S. Carr Company, or either of them, operating under the trade name of Appling Turpentine Company. The defendant .Carr denied individual liability on the note in question, and averred that it was executed by him as agent for the Appling Turpentine Company and not as an individual.
Plaintiff’s motion to strike the several pleas was overruled by the trial court, and testimony by the defendant Carr in support of the averments of his individual pleas and answer, in which he denied all personal liability, was admitted, over the objection of plaintiff. Exceptions were saved in bóth these instances, as well as to portions of the judge’s charge to the jury. A verdict was returned against Appling Turpentine Company and The A. S. Carr Company (J. D. Stewart not having been served with process), and in favor of A. S. Carr individually; and judgment was entered on the verdict. The plaintiff made a motion for a new trial upon the usual general grounds. The single ground of the several exceptions taken by plaintiff, as well as the ground assigned upon its motion for a new trial (which was overruled), is that the defendant Carr was permitted by parol testimony to vary and contradict the terms of the promissory note.
The plaintiff takes the position that the signature to the promissory note of “Appling Turpentine Company, by A. S. Carr,” constitutes an individual obligation of A. S. Carr, in the relationship of a partner of the Appling Turpentine Company, as a conclusion
Judgment affirmed.