Suburban Trust Co. v. Waller

How courts have described this case

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• holding that banks implicitly warrant to maintain confidentiality over individual depositor's affairs to the extent permitted by law; here the bank made a disclosure to a third party
• recognizing that disclosure where required by law does not violate duty of confidentiality
• relying, inter alia, on Toumier and Peterson to establish an implied duty of nondisclosure for a bank
• bank has obligation not to disclose financial information of depositors save by compulsion of law
• bank implicitly warrants to maintain, in strict confidence, information regarding its depositor’s affairs
• relationship between bank and its customers is one of debtor and creditor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).