JACQUES v. FIRST NAT'L BANK

No. 66, September Term, 1985.

307 Md. 527 (1986)

515 A.2d 756

ROBERT ANTHONY JACQUES ET UX. v. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 8, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert D. Brault (Janet S. Zigler and Brault, Graham, Scott & Brault, on the brief), Rockville, for appellant.

John E. Griffith, Jr. (Piper & Marbury, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

This appeal presents the issue of whether a bank that has agreed to process an application for a loan owes to its customer a duty of reasonable care in the processing and determination of that application. We hold that under the particular facts of this case the bank is properly charged with that duty.

The bank customers, Robert and Margaret Jacques ("the Jacques"), sued The First National Bank of Maryland ("the Bank") alleging that the Bank...

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