Atlas Assurance Co. v. First National Bank

1. Where one executes a promissory note or a bill of exchange in his own name with a descriptive suffix, such as “general agent,” attached to his signature, and where it does not appear on the face of the instrument that he is acting for or in behalf of any one as principal, the instrument is presumably his individual obligation, and before any one can be held liable thereon as principal it must affirmatively appear that at the time of the execution of the instrument it was the intention of the parties to bind a particular person as principal, and that the maker, in executing the instrument,…