Whitmer Co. v. Sheffield

Irrespective of whether the defendants in this case were sureties or guarantors (see, in this connection, Etheridge v. Rawleigh Co., 39 Ga. App. 698, 116 S. E. 903; Rawleigh Co. v. Salter, 31 Ga. App. 339, 130 S. E. 679), they were released from liability, since what they agreed to do was to guarantee the honest and faithful performance on the part of their principal of a written contract, whereby the principal was “to purchase [of the plain*624tiff] on credit and at wholesale prices to sell again to customers medicines, extracts,” and other articles, and to remit "in cash each week to said…