Brice v. Northwest Georgia Bank

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Brice contracted to sell a piece of land and a mobile home to Benjamin Franklin and his wife Brenda, the sale contingent upon the Franklins’ ability to obtain a loan of approximately $12,000 from appellee Northwest Bank. The bank declined to make the loan on the basis of the Franklins’ credit-worthiness alone; Brice thereupon agreed to sign the promissory note along with the Franklins, and did so. The record reveals that each of the three signed the face of the bank-provided note on a separate line beneath which was printed the word “Borrower.” No signatures…