Commercial Cotton Co. v. United California Bank

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that punitive damages are recoverable where the bank breached the duty of good faith and fair dealing towards its depositor
• extending the tort action for breach of the implied covenant to some types of banking relationships
• extending the tort action for breach of the implied covenant to some types of banking relationships
• insufficient evidence of severe emotional distress where plaintiff “was aggravated and irritated and upset” for a short time
• “[T]he Supreme Court found it unnecessary to determine how far, if at all, the doctrine should extend to ordinary commercial contracts____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).