Legal Opinion
Buena Vista Loan & Savings Bank v. Bickerstaff
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided February 5, 1970No. 44696PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Jordan, Presiding Judge.
The plaintiff bases his claim primarily on the breach of a bailor-bailee relationship with the bank in respect to the alleged missing contents of the box, or, in the alternative, if the relationship is not that of a bailorbailee, at least a duty on the part of the bank to exercise ordinary care to safeguard the contents of the box, contending that the evidence of negligence in this respect is sufficient to create a jury question.
The defendant relies on the decision in Tow v. Evans, 194 Ga. 160 (20 SE2d 922) defining the relationship between the bank and a customer to…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Merchants National Bank v. GuilmartinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1892
- Red-Cross Laundry v. TutenCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1924
- Richter Bros. v. Atlantic Co.Court of Appeals of Georgia · 1938
- Williams v. BennettSupreme Court of Georgia · 1924
- Merchants National Bank v. CarhartSupreme Court of Georgia · 1895
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