Branch Banking & Trust Co. v. Gill

SHARP, Chief Justice.

In our earlier opinion in this case we held: (1) that the Bank did not take the 13 fraudulent warehouse receipts (Nos. 974-986) by “due negotiation” and thus did not acquire the rights specified in G.S. 25-7-502; (2) that “nothing else appearing” the Bank was merely a transferee of the negotiable warehouse receipts and thus acquired no greater rights or title than its transferor, Southeastern; (3) that Elevator, by canceling the 16 old receipts, obtained from the Bank by Woodcock’s fraud, ratified Woodcock’s issuance and exchange of the 13 fraudulent receipts for the 16…