Cascade Steel Fabricators, Inc. v. Citizens Bank

HOWELL, J. pro tempore.

Plaintiff filed this action for damages for "the tort of bad faith” arising out of the defendant Bank’s failure to extend additional credit to plaintiff and for its foreclosure on plaintiff’s collateral for loans from the bank. Defendant’s motion for a judgment of involuntary nonsuit was allowed and plaintiff appeals. We affirm.

Plaintiff is engaged in the manufacturing and installation of machinery made of steel. Since 1963 plaintiff has been a customer of defendant bank and had established a line of credit and obtained loans from the bank. In 1975 plaintiff had…