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Show BANKERS WANT EARLY TRIAL OF FORGED LADING BILL CASE Total Amount Involved Is Said to Be in Excess of $5,000,000. NEW yrRK. June 30.-The Guaranty Trust company will not appeal from Fed-I Fed-I eral Judice Noyes recent decision over-I over-I rulfna the company'a deniurrer In a bull j hrotuzht by a Liverpool cotton buyer to ! r'oer for losses ' from forajed bllla of In dtnc Instead the company will ask 1 that tha rase be hrouKht to trial. A trial prohsblv cannot be had before fall. Thta action, which was bmnaht by An-' An-' thnv I MannHV of I,lverpool. Involves dlrei-tlv onlv $7.1.n. hut It is looked upon as a test whb h ts llkelv to nettle rla :rns exceeding l.i.W.rtOO Incurred by bankers who arrept--d forajM hHIa nf ad-ina ad-ina rtnia-n up by knlaht. Yanrv A Co.. and Btpel. Miller Co. Pouihern -otton tntereata are disturbed over the suit, since It will mean a considerable increase In the cost of oollecttna their bills. If It ta finally decided aaalnst the New York bankera. The latter have been In the hal.lt of leaving to the foreign hanka on which drafta are drawn the question of the cotton eeller'a reMablllty and have never Indorsed hllla passing through their hands. If the court ahall hld thar baj acting aa Intermediary between the cotton men and' the foreign banks the local bank become responsible for the genuineness of httie bills of ladinau-,theaL iir.Ueinana, m. rimcn big tier price fr their servlcea as guarantors. i |