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  "name": "Thomas Piser, Plaintiff in Error, v. Serota and Gans et al., Defendants in Error",
  "name_abbreviation": "Piser v. Serota & Gans",
  "decision_date": "1913-10-15",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 17,586",
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    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "Thomas Piser, Plaintiff in Error, v. Serota and Gans et al., Defendants in Error."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Graves\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Graves"
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    "attorneys": [
      "Harry M. Fisher, for plaintiff in error.",
      "William A. Jennings, for defendants in error."
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    "head_matter": "Thomas Piser, Plaintiff in Error, v. Serota and Gans et al., Defendants in Error.\nGen. No. 17,586.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Coepobations, \u00a7 457 \u2014power to become accommodation indorser. A commercial corporation has no power to become an accommodation indorser of negotiable paper.\n2. Coepobations, \u00a7 454*\u2014when indorsement on note not descriptio personae. Am indorsement on a promissory note \u201cAmerican Badge Co., Frank A. Smith, Pres.\u201d is an indorsement of the corporation, and extrinsic evidence is not admissible to show who was intended to be bound.\n3. Coepobations, \u00a7 297*\u2014personal liability of officers for ultra vires acts. An officer authorized to act for the corporation and who discloses for whom he is acting is not personally liable upon an indorsement upon a note made by him in the name of the corporation, when the indorsement is ultra vires the corporation.\n4. Bills and notes, \u00a7 247*\u2014when purchaser charged with notice of want of power of corporation to indorse. One purchasing a promissory note, knowing that the name of a corporation was indorsed thereon for accommodation,' takes subject to all defenses arising from lack of power of such corporation to become such indorser.\nError to the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Hosea W. Wells, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1911.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed October 15, 1913.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction by Thomas Piser against Serota and Gans, doing business as Serota & Gans, American Badge Co., a corporation, Frank Smith, A. L. Mendelson and Max Gutkowsky, to recover on a promissory note in- \u25a0 dorsed to plaintiff. From a judgment for defendants, plaintiff brings error.\nHarry M. Fisher, for plaintiff in error.\nWilliam A. Jennings, for defendants in error.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XIV, same topic and section number."
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