Commercial Bank v. Elliott

Citations

• 92 Wash. 357
• 159 P. 377
• 1916 Wash. LEXIS 768

Syllabus

<p>Bills and Notes — Bill of Lading — Title—Attachment. A bank having discounted a sight draft with bill of lading attached, covering an automobile, is entitled, as a matter of law, to all the property covered by the bill of lading, superior to one claiming by virtue of a subsequent attachment.</p> <p>Appeal — Review—Discretion—Grant of New Trial. The granting of a new trial for insufficiency of the evidence will not be reviewed except for abuse of discretion; and none appears, where, in the face of ample testimony of the ownership of a car, an adverse verdict was based on the meager, indefinite testimony of a witness to the effect that he “thought” the car in question was one of two carloads sent him.</p>