First State Bank at Gallup v. Clark

How courts have described this case

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• holding official comments to the Code are persuasive, but not controlling, authority
• holding official comments to the Code are persuasive, but not controlling, authority
• holding official comments to the Code are persuasive, but not controlling authority
• “[I]t is clear that in order to determine whether an instrument meets [the requirements of UCC § 3-104] only the instrument itself may be looked to, not other documents, even when other documents are referred to in the instru- ment.”
• promise to pay was not unconditional and note was expressly drafted to render it nonnegotiable by addition of a restriction on the back of the note stating that the note could not be transferred, assigned, or pledged without consent of the maker

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).