East Atlanta Bank v. Nicholson

The jury was authorized to find that the defendant left three automobiles in the possession of Waters, a used-car dealer, under an agreement that the .dealer and the defendant would, upon the sale of the automobiles, divide the profits; that the defendant is the true owner of the automobiles; that the used-car dealer, instead of selling the automobiles, executed a bill of sale to each of the automobiles in favor of the plaintiff bank to secure loans made by the bank to the dealer; that the plaintiff bank made the loans to the used-car dealer solely upon the representation of the dealer that…