Stringer Construction Co. v. American Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• fraud must have “so vitiated the entire transaction that the legitimate purposes of the independence of the issuer’s obligation would no longer be served”
• under the UCC a court may look at the underlying contract only if there is fraud, forgery, or other defect in the documents, and the UCC is narrowly interpreted such that the fraud must vitiate the entire transaction: fraud in the factum or in forming the underling agreement is required.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Newcastle Properties, Inc. v. Shalowitz
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1991-09-26· cited 25×
• Cromwell v. Commerce & Energy Bank
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1984-05-09· cited 18×
• Fanslow v. Northern Trust Co.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1998-08-31· cited 18×
• Mount Prospect State Bank v. Marine Midland Bank
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-12-07· cited 17×
• American National Bank & Trust Co. v. Hamilton Industries International, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 1984-02-22· cited 11×
• Village of Long Grove v. Austin Bank of Chicago
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1994-12-13· cited 10×
• Jupiter Orrington Corp. v. Zwiefel
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-06-22· cited 8×
• Offshore Trading Co. v. Citizens National Bank
  D. Kansas· 1987-01-07· cited 7×
• Bonny v. Society of Lloyd's
  N.D. Illinois· 1992-02-24· cited 6×
• Professional Modular Surface, Inc. v. Uniroyal, Inc.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1982-08-13· cited 6×
• Stringer Construction Co. v. La Grange State Bank
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-12-28· cited 4×
• Auto-Owners Insurance v. South Side Trust & Savings Bank
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-11-22· cited 3×
• APV Baker, Inc. v. Harris Trust & Savings Bank
  W.D. Michigan· 1991-04-11· cited 2×
• Lincoln National Life Insurance v. TCF National Bank
  N.D. Illinois· 2012-06-20· cited 1×
• Barton Chemical Corp. v. Mobil Petrochemical Sales & Supply Corp. (In re Barton Chemical Corp.)
  N.D. Illinois· 1993-06-30
• Hamelberg v. Boundary Waters Bank
  C.D. Illinois· 2012-04-10

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Intraworld Industries, Inc. v. Girard Trust Bank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-04-17· cited 105×
• Sztejn v. J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp.
  New York Supreme Court· 1941-07-01· cited 72×
• Dynamics Corp. of America v. Citizens & Southern National Bank
  N.D. Georgia· 1973-03-28· cited 56×
• Pastor v. National Republic Bank of Chicago
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1979-06-01· cited 40×
• Baker v. National Boulevard Bank of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 1975-09-08· cited 30×
• First Arlington National Bank v. Stathis
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1980-09-26· cited 28×
• Edgewater Construction Co. v. Percy Wilson Mortgage & Finance Corp.
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1976-11-30· cited 20×
• Bank of North Carolina, N. A. v. The Rock Island Bank, an Illinois Corporation
  Seventh Circuit· 1980-09-22· cited 18×
• Bank of North Carolina v. Rock Island Bank
  C.D. Illinois· 1979-06-04· cited 3×