Opinion
A91A1223.
DECIDED OCTOBER 24, 1991.
Action on note. Fulton State Court. Before Judge Hill, pro hac vice.
Craft Spell, L. Penn Spell, Jr., for appellants.
Thompson McClure, Douglas R. Thompson, for appellee.
Jerry B. Attkisson, Faset J. Seay, and FJB Corporation appeal the grant of summary judgment to Lynn G. Cavanagh in her suit on a note. Appellants contend that the trial court erred by refusing to permit them to show by parol evidence that Attkisson and Seay did not sign the note in their individual capacities. The record shows that the note was signed on the bottom right portion of the note, as follows:
"By: /s/ Jerry B. Attkisson ___________________ FJB CORPORATION
Sec/Trea.
/s/ Jerry B. Attkisson ___________________ JERRY B. ATTKISSON
/s/ Faset J. Seay ______________ FASET J. SEAY"
There is no question about FJB Corporation's liability on the note, but Attkisson and Seay contend that they are not personally liable since they merely signed in their representative capacities as officers of the corporation. Thus, they assert that the trial court erred by refusing to allow them to explain their signatures on the note and by granting summary judgment to Cavanagh. Held:
The promissory note shows no ambiguity about the capacity in which Attkisson and Seay signed. Each put his signature over his typed name on the note without any indication that he signed in a representative capacity. Therefore, they had no entitlement to rely on parol evidence. Dennisson v. Lakeway Publishers, 196 Ga. App. 85, 86 ( 395 S.E.2d 366); Brice v. Northwest Ga. Bank, 186 Ga. App. 871 ( 368 S.E.2d 816); American Cas. Co. v. Crain-Daly Volkswagen, 129 Ga. App. 576 ( 200 S.E.2d 281). Moreover, their unqualified signatures on the note shows that they are liable. OCGA § 11-3-402 and 11-3-403 (2); Dennisson v. Lakeway Publishers, supra.
Accordingly, the trial court did not err by granting summary judgment to Cavanagh.
Judgment affirmed. Pope and Cooper, JJ., concur.