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PERKINS v. CLINTON STATE BANK

No. 78-1083.

593 F.2d 327 (1979)

Ben Fred PERKINS, as Administrator with Will Annexed of the Estate of T. O. Perkins, Deceased, and Mary Perkins, Individually, Appellees, v. CLINTON STATE BANK, Appellant, v. FIDELITY AND DEPOSIT COMPANY OF MARYLAND, Appellee, G. C. Daugherty Properties, Inc., and G. C. Daugherty, Individually.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 27, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Johnson, Johnson & Lewis, Ltd., Little Rock, Ark., argued, for appellant; Fletcher C. Lewis, Little Rock, Ark., on brief.

Vincent Foster, Jr., Little Rock, Ark., argued and on brief, for appellee Perkins.

Ronald A. May, Wright, Lindsey & Jennings, Little Rock, Ark., argued and on brief, for appellee Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge, LAY and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.

LAY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the Clinton State Bank from a judgment for losses suffered by Mary Perkins and the estate of her deceased husband, T. O. Perkins. The trial court, the Honorable G. Thomas Eisele presiding, found that the defendant G. C. Daugherty fraudulently induced Thomas McKnight, an officer of the Bank, to release escrow documents which the Bank, as escrow agent, held as security for the protection of the Perkins in a complicated land ...

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