· 5/5/1986
Symanski v. East Ramapo Central School District
Citations
- 117 A.D.2d 18
- 502 N.Y.S.2d 209
- 1986 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 51040
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- concluding that bank was not liable for negligence to customer’s creditors and observing that “to hold that banks owe a duty to . . . assure the creditors’ collection of the depositors’ debts would be to unreasonably expand banks’ orbit of duty”
- dismissing negligence claim asserting that bank had a duty to monitor depositor’s activities on behalf of creditors on the basis that such liability would “unreasonably expand banks’ orbit of duty.”
- dismissing negligence claim asserting that bank had a duty to monitor depositor's activities on behalf of creditors on the basis that such liability would “unreasonably expand banks’ orbit of duty.”
- “[T]o hold that banks owe a duty to their depositors’ creditors to monitor the depositors’ financial activities so as to assure the creditors’ collection of the depositors’ debts would be to unreasonably expand banks’ orbit of duty.”
- \[T]o hold that banks owe a duty to their depositors' creditors to monitor the depositors' financial activities so as to assure the creditors' collection of the depositors' debts would be to unreasonably expand banks' orbit of duty.\
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Judges: Rubin
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