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Inner Office Memo Editing and Enhancing
Inneroffice Memorandum
Mrs. Alexander, Senior Partner
FROM: Brandon Lee, Junior Counsel
RE: Mrs. Alexander Denise - Galactica National Bank, Et. al.
Fact Summary:
Miss Alexis Denise had bank accounts with Gallactica National Bank. In July of 2011, she discovered that she was missing a check. In order to protect her account and inform the bank of the missing check, she requested, and the bank agreed to place a stop payment on the check. The bank, did not honor this request and as a result the check was fraudulently used by Whitney Spears. The check cleared the bank resulting in $50,000 missing from Miss Denise's account. As the result of the missing funds, multiple checks written by Miss Denise were dishonored for insufficient funds leading to hostile collection calls from the Gimme Finacial Credit Card Company and a repossession that ended with a melee and Miss Denise being arrested by the Birmingham police under the city's breach of peace ordinance. Miss Denise sorted everything out with her bank account and the police agree to not press any charges. Miss Denise is now interested in determining any civil or criminal actions that can be taken.
Was there a valid contract between Galactica National Bank and Mrs. Denise ?:
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As stated in the 2nd Restatement of Contract Law section 72, in order for a contract to be valid there must be payment made for service rendered. While this is standard for an arm's length contract, Miss Denise had an existing business relationship with the bank, her accounts. Under this relationship, the bank has an obligation to protect her funds and make them readily available for use in exchange for the bank's benefit of holding onto the funds. While the bank did waive the stop check fee, that was an act of courtesy within the business, not an attempt to invalidate the agreement. Thus, there is still a valid contract and the bank is still under obligation to place a stop payment on the check.
Negligence on the part of Galactica National Bank:
This next issue is whether the bank acted negligently in failing to follow through with the stop payment on the check. Under Alabama law a party is negligent when four criteria are met: (1) Existence of a duty on the part of the defendant, (2) the defendant's breach of that duty, (3) existence of a causal relationship between the defendant's conduct and the plaintiff's injuries, (4) resulting injury to the plaintiff.
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