Union Trust Co. v. Carolina Bank & Trust Co.

The case was tried without .the intervention/of a jury and a finding and judgment had for the plaintiff in the amount sued for. This proceeding is to reverse that judgment.

The record shows that Goolsby and Son Company negotiated the sale of a carload of cucumbers to the Brookhart Fruit Company of Cleveland and loaded the cucumbers in Seaboard car No. 28,322; that in arranging for credit the Brookhart Fruit Company advised The Union Trust Company that its guaranty was desired on the strength of a bill of lading for car No. 2822, and the Trust Company wired the bank that it would accept car…