NAT. ACCEPTANCE CO. v. FULTON NAT. BANK

41878.

113 Ga. App. 517 (1966)

148 S.E.2d 907

NATIONAL ACCEPTANCE COMPANY v. FULTON NATIONAL BANK OF ATLANTA et al.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 5, 1966.

Rehearing Denied April 21, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nolan B. Harmon, G. William Thackston, Jr., for appellant.

Nall, Miller, Cadenhead & Dennis, Theodore G. Frankel, Gerald A. Friedlander, Clarence C. Calhoun, Jr., for appellees.


HALL, Judge.

This case brings to the court's attention again the unreliability of the law on the subject of agreements to guarantee the debt of another, and the difficulty of anticipating before litigation whether in signing a particular contract one becomes a surety or a guarantor. We sympathize with the attorneys and the trial court who have tried to determine which type was the contract in this case. Courts have long discussed the "state of inextricable confusion...

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