McLendon v. Lane

Where a promissory note was signed by two persons as apparent makers, but one of them signed at the request of the payee, the brother-in-law of the other maker, solely because the payee stated that he wanted to lend his brother-in-law some money to pay a hospital bill incurred in the illness of the latter’s daughter, and “in order to secure part of the money he might have to sell,, transfer, assign, or hypothecate the note, and that in order to make the note as strong as possible so that he could so sell, transfer, or assign same, he wanted to get one or two other persons on the note with his…