Crutcher v. Continental Nat. Bank

OPINION

KOEHLER, Justice.

In this summary judgment appeal, the primary question is whether a bank owed a duty to its former customers who held unrecorded liens against twenty-seven trailers, to investigate before complying with a request by the title owner of the trailers to execute releases of liens in connection with the owner’s applications for title on grounds that the original titles had been lost or destroyed. The trial court concluded that the bank owed no such duty and granted the bank’s motion for summary judgment. We affirm.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

Continental National Bank (Bank),…