McAllen Hospitals, L.P. D/B/A McAllen Medical Center v. State Farm County Mutual Insurance Company of Texas

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• holding delivery to one joint payee is delivery to all
• reversing and remanding because an issue presented on appeal had not been previously raised as a ground for summary judgment
• drawee bank may not charge its customer’s account on an instrument that is not properly authorized
• “We do not address this holding’s applica- bility to copayees in an agency relationship, as that scenario is not presented.”
• “While the Hospital could have attempted to pursue the payor bank for relief directly, its failure to do so does not affect State Farm’s obligations under the ÜCC.”
• delivery of a check made jointly payable one nonalternative copayee without the endorsement of the other does not constitute “payment,’’.and “it does not discharge the drawer of either his liability on the instrument or his underlying obligation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).