Cardinal State Bank, Nat. Ass'n v. Crook

Cardinal State Bank instituted suit against Kenneth M. Crook and his mother, Mildred Crook Taylor (hereinafter collectively, the Crooks) on an $86,000 note that was part of the Bank’s financing of Crooks’ purchase of a grocery store. The circuit court, citing the parol evidence rule, barred the Crooks from presenting evidence about the circumstances of the note and directed a verdict in favor of the Bank in the note’s outstanding balance. On appeal, the Crooks allege that the Bank fraudulently induced them to sign a short-term note. We find that the jury should have deter*154mined the factual…