Village of Long Grove v. Austin Bank of Chicago

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “if the documents presented conform to the requirements stated in the letter of credit, the bank may not look to the underlying contract between the customer and the beneficiary in determining whether to honor the demand”
• “The general rule, known as the independence principle, posits that if the documents presented conform to the requirements stated in the letter of credit, the bank may not look to the underlying contract between the customer and the beneficiary in determining whether to honor the demand.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).