LEAHY, EXECUTRIX v. McMANUS

[No. 149, September Term, 1964.]

237 Md. 450 (1965)

206 A.2d 688

LEAHY, EXECUTRIX v. McMANUS ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 8, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Graham Boyce, Jr., with whom was Wylie L. Ritchey on the brief, for the appellant.

Francis N. Iglehart, with whom were Brune, Robertson & Iglehart on the brief, for Charles E. McManus, Jr., an appellee.

No brief and no appearance for the corporate appellee.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HAMMOND, MARBURY, SYBERT and OPPENHEIMER, JJ.


OPPENHEIMER, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This appeal is from a judgment absolving the individual appellee from personal liability on a note of the corporate appellee, on the ground that the former signed in a representative capacity.

The note, dated April 15, 1957, reads: " — Four months after date we promise to pay to the order of A. Hamilton Leahy — One Thousand and no/100 — Dollars Payable at __________ Without defalcation...

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