Metsch v. First Alabama Bank of Mobile (In Re Colombian Coffee Co.)

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• funds sent to defendant bank to deposit in third party's account
• \[I]t would be both problematical and preposterous were courts to\ find a depository bank a transferee under federal bankruptcy law when the bank \possessed no discretion with respect to the disposition of the funds - it was constrained to follow the debtor's instructions.\
• “[I]t would be both problematical and preposterous were courts to” find a depository bank a transferee under federal bankruptcy law when the bank “possessed no discretion with respect to the disposition of the funds—it was constrained to follow the debtor’s instructions.”

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