SECURITY FINANCE GROUP v. N. KY. BANK AND TRUST

No. 87-5823.

858 F.2d 304 (1988)

SECURITY FINANCE GROUP, INC., Benz General Partnership # 1, and JAG General Partnership No. 1, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NORTHERN KENTUCKY BANK AND TRUST, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 23, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Cooper, Gray, Woods and Cooper, Ashland, Ky., Yale L. Goldberg (argued) Rockville, Md., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Richard A. Getty (argued), Frost & Jacobs, Lexington, Ky., David C. Horn, Frost & Jacobs, Cincinnati, Ohio, for defendant-appellee.

Before KEITH and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges; and EDWARDS, Senior Circuit Judge.


WELLFORD, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, Security Finance Group, Inc. ("Security Finance"), a lending institution, brought an action to enforce several letters of credit against the appellee, Northern Kentucky Bank and Trust, Inc. ("Northern Kentucky"). At issue on appeal is the district court's holding that the documents are unenforceable guaranties rather than valid letters of credit.

The conduct behind this litigation involved a number of banks and an apparently...

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