Legal Opinion
Covington v. Penn Square National Bank
Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma
Decided January 22, 1976No. 47974PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REYNOLDS, Judge:
This is a suit against two banks to recover the amount of a cashier’s check obtained from plaintiff by fraud and paid in contravention of a stop order. The case was submitted to the trial court on pleadings, admissions and interrogatories. The plaintiff appeals summary judgment for the defendant banks.
In November of 1972 one James F. Beaird, Jr. contacted the plaintiffs to sell them an oil lease. He represented himself to be an employee of Western Geophysical Company of Houston, Texas, and showed the plaintiffs a map which purported to show the location of eight test well…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- P. & H. Finance Co. v. First State Bank of SeminoleSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1939
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