Murphy v. National City Bank

Page, J.:

The plaintiff sues to recover $244,602.18 due to his assignor, Koppel Industrial Car and Equipment Company, on an alleged guaranty by the defendant of an indebtedness of Rafael Pena, a citizen of Cuba.

The complaint alleged that the Koppel Industrial Car and Equipment Company, hereinafter designated as the Koppel Company, during the years 1920 and 1921 sold to Pena and one Domingo Leon, both citizens of Cuba, certain rails, locomotives and other railway equipment for use in the production and export of sugar crops grown by them on their plantations, under notarial contracts, whereby…