OMNIBANK OF MANTEE v. UNITED SOUTHERN BANK

No. 89-CA-0614.

607 So.2d 76 (1992)

OMNIBANK OF MANTEE and James R. Gray v. UNITED SOUTHERN BANK, Phillip Kantor and John B. Lowery.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied August 26, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grady F. Tollison, Jr., S. Allan Alexander, Tollison Austin & Twiford, Oxford, Heidelberg & Woodliff, Jackson, John W. Dulaney, Jr., Tunica, for appellants.

John H. Dunbar, Jack F. Dunbar, Holcomb Dunbar Connell Chaffin & Willard, Oxford, Winn Davis Brown, Jr., Southaven, Roger A. Stone, Memphis, Tenn., William F. Travis, Southaven, William H. Thomas, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., for appellees.

Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This appeal arises from a branch bank officer's imprudent credit practices, only days after the branch opened with assets purchased from another parent bank. Problems of corporate governance are present as well, some of which arise incident to the branch bank president's divided loyalties between the selling and buying parent banks. The Chancery Court awarded the buying parent bank a substantial personal judgment against...

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