Henderson v. Ellarbee

1. Where promissory notes stipulate, •‘we” promise to pay, etc., and are signed on the face by only one party,—a corporation by its officers,—and there are indorsed on the back of the notes the names of individuals not necessary to the transmission of the title to the notes, such “irregular or anomalous indorsers” (7 Cyc. 664; Atkinson v. Bennett, 103 Ga. 508, 510, 30 S. E. 599) are presumptively either comakers or sureties, and are not technical indorsers. If they are sureties, all or less than all could be sued in the venue of either; if joint makers, the same rule would apply unless the…