WHITE v. HANCOCK BANK

No. 55045.

477 So.2d 265 (1985)

Austin W. WHITE v. HANCOCK BANK.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied November 6, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Vaughn, Alben N. Hopkins, Hopkins, Logan, Vaughn & Anderson, Gulfport, for appellant.

Knox White, John M. Harral, White & Morse, Gulfport, Barkley Clark, Lawrence, Kan., for appellee.

Before PATTERSON, C.J., and PRATHER and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This action represents a salvage effort by a Gulf Coast businessman undertaken in the wake of his shipwrecked effort to sell his gasoline distributorship business to a then unbeknownst con artist. Our purchaser-villian, bled the business dry and has left for parts unknown, no doubt from whence he came. His business destroyed, our seller sought a solvent defendant. He picked his long time banker, who at best has an incidental...

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