Cargill, Incorporated, Cross-Appellant v. Lloyd Buis and Rose M. Buis, Cross-Appellees

HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge.

We are concerned here with the extent of coverage of indebtedness by separate Letters of Guaranty signed by defendants, Lloyd Buis and Rose M. Buis, his wife. A subsidiary question raised on cross-appeal is the denial of attorneys’ fees to plaintiff’s attorneys.

The case was tried to the federal district court, 1 without the intervention of a jury, upon a written joint submission of the parties for final determination, based upon a stipulation of facts, documents and issues, together with other matters set out therein.

The court found as a matter of law that…