Case Name: Bartram, Hendrix & Company vs. The Collins Manufacturing Company
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1882-10-24
Citations: 69 Ga. 751
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bartram, Hendrix & Company vs. The Collins Manufacturing Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 751–751

Head Matter:
Bartram, Hendrix & Company vs. The Collins Manufacturing Company.
A corporation is not a person in law until after the grant of its charter. Therefore, where, pending the application for a charter, a summons of garnishment was sued out and served on one as the president of such corporation, it was void, and a judgment by default, also rendered before the grant of the charter, based on such summons, was likewise void, and could be attacked by affidavit of illegality. Code, §3536.
(a.) The members of the company cannot be held liable as partners under a summons directed to the company as a corporation.
October 24, 1882.

Opinion:
Speer, Justice,