Branch, Judge. Crop Production Services, Inc. (“CPS”) brought suit against T. E. Moye, his daughter Mollie Squires, Mollie’s husband Richard, and Gracie’s Ridge, LLC, a company owned by Mollie and operated by her husband. The claims against Moye were based on his written guaranty of Gracie Ridge’s account with CPS. Moye moved for partial summary judgment based on an alleged oral agreement in which CPS allegedly agreed to rescind or revoke Moye’s obligations under the guaranty. The trial court granted summary judgment on that ground, and CPS appeals. Because we find an issue of fact regarding that agreement, we reverse.[1]Summary judgment is proper when there is no genuine issue of material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. OCGA § 91156 (c). “In reviewing a grant or denial of summary judgment, we owe no deference to the trial court’s ruling and we review de novo both the evidence and the trial court’s legal conclusions.” GAPIII, Inc. v. Seal Indus., 338 Ga. App. 101, 102 (789 SE2d 321) (2016). Moreover, we construe the evidence and all inferences and conclusions arising therefrom most favorably toward the party opposing the motion. SKC, Inc. v. EMAG Solutions, 326 Ga. App. 798, 798 (755 SE2d 298) (2014). The record[2] shows that CPS is an agricultural products supply company that provided Gracie’s Ridge, LLC, with agricultural products on account through a series of orders and deliveries. At all relevant times, Lavon Odom was the primary salesman in CPS’s Arlington location responsible for the Gracie’s Ridge account; he also held the title “manager” at that location for some portion of the relevant time and signed some documents as the “Branch Manager.” In his role as a salesman, Odom was responsible for getting credit applications and other form documents signed by Gracie’s Ridge in connection with the account. He would then submit the documents to the credit manager in CPS’s area office in Tifton, which decided whether to grant credit. But according to CPS’s internal rules, Odom did not have authority to grant credit to CPS’s customers or to rescind or revoke a guaranty. Moye is a college-educated farmer, former chairman of the Baker County Board of Commissioners, and former 30-year district field representative for the Georgia Farm Bureau. Moye had known and done business with Odom for twenty years, and Odom was the only CPS representative with whom Moye had any contact during the time relevant to this case. At all relevant times, Moye’s daughter Molly Squires owned Gracie’s Ridge and her husband operated the farming business and ordered products from CPS; other than advising Richard what to plant, Moye played no role in the company and never represented to CPS that he did. Moye did, however, sign checks on behalf of Gracie’s Ridge from time to time between 2011 and 2013; he was a signator on Gracie’s Ridge’s bank account during that time.Moye testified that in about April 2011, he told Odom that he “wanted to get it fixed up where we could get the children some credit started.” Consequently, on April 26, 2011, Moye entered into a Guaranty Agreement (the “First Guaranty”) with CPS, “[i]n consideration of and to induce [CPS] extending credit to Gracie’s Ridge.” In this guaranty, Moye unconditionally guaranteed payment by Gracies’ Ridge for “all goods for which credit has been or is so given.” The First Guaranty provides that any notice of revocation had to be submitted in writing:This Guaranty Agreement shall continue until CPS shall receive from the undersigned, or any of the undersigned, written notice of revocation which revocation shall be effective only as to payment of purchase price on goods ordered by purchaser [Gracie's Ridge] (or contractual duties or obligations of purchaser arising) after the receipt thereof. Any such notice of revocation by any one of the undersigned shall not affect the obligations hereunder of any other of the undersigned.
Odom signed the guaranty as a witness. Thereafter, Gracie’s Ridge began placing orders with CPS. On February 5, 2013, Moye executed a one-paragraph guaranty located on a CPS Customer Profile and Commercial Credit Agreement for Gracie’s Ridge. Odom signed the document as CPS’s “Branch Manager.” This “Second Guaranty” provides that Moyeguarantee(s) the payment . . . and assume(s) personal liability for the payment . . . of all obligations due and owing CPS for products and services to Applicant(s) pursuant to this request for credit. . . . This guaranty is absolute, unconditional, and continuing and shall remain in effect until Applicant’s (s’) obligations have been paid, performed, and discharged in full.
