Rocky Mountain MacHinery Co., Cross-Appellant v. First National Bank of Trinidad, Cross-Appellee, and Gary C. Carden and Triad Industries, Inc.

SETH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment entered on a jury verdict for the plaintiff in a diversity contract action brought by Rocky Mountain Machinery Co. against the First National Bank of Trinidad. The plaintiff brings a cross-appeal on the trial court’s failure to award prejudgment interest.

A customer of the defendant Bank, Mr. Alvin Wiggins, had some property on which he had been mining coal but the venture was unprofitable. This person at the beginning of these transactions owed the defendant Bank a substantial amount of money — an amount which may have…