Parker v. Columbia Bank

How courts have described this case

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• holding that . where there is “‘no contractual basis for a special duty of care is alleged, a lender owes no duty of. care to its borrower”
• holding that defendant’s statement that plaintiffs had “nothing to worry about” and his “alleged misrepresentations as to his. _ own experience in loan administration” were merely matters of opinion
• noting that special circumstances may exist where the bank receives economic benefits beyond those of the underlying mortgage
• noting that a duty of good faith and fair dealing “prohibits one party to a contract from acting in such a manner as to prevent the other party from performing his obligations under the contract”
• addressing duty of good faith and fair dealing in contracts between lender and borrower
• stating that, under Maryland law, the implied duty of good faith “simply prohibits one party to a contract from acting in such a manner as to prevent the other party from performing his [or her] obligations under the contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).