Case Name: CONLEY MILLWORK COMPANY v. EPLER
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1963-07-12
Citations: 219 Ga. 189
Docket Number: 22075
Parties: CONLEY MILLWORK COMPANY v. EPLER.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 219
Pages: 189–189

Head Matter:
22075.
CONLEY MILLWORK COMPANY v. EPLER.
Argued July 9, 1963
Decided July 12, 1963.
Augustine Sams, Marion A. Sams, Edward S. Sams, for plaintiff in error.
Westmoreland, Hall & Pentecost, Harry P. Hall, Jr., contra.

Opinion:
Duckworth, Chief Justice.
Upon further consideration of this case we hold that it was correctly decided by the Court of Appeals. The paper purporting to be an answer nowhere states that it is the answer of the defendant corporation, nor is the name of the corporation signed thereto, and this is a fatal defect requiring the lower court to strike it on demurrer. Code Ann. § 81-305 (Ga. L. 1946, pp. 761, 774). Therefore, had Kirkland signed it, as Vice President, it would have remained fatally defective, but he did not even sign in such representative capacity. His signature is followed by the words "Vice President," and these quoted words amount to no more than describing who he is but not in what capacity he signed. It is therefore clearly a paper signed by Kirkland individually, and the judgment of the Court of Appeals must be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.