Court Opinion

ID: 9597712
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 01:02:15.706066+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:28:30.005804
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Hill, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent.
After becoming interested in purchasing the motor home, Mrs. Arnold applied through Mr. Fraser, a loan officer at the bank, for a loan. After completing the application, Mrs. Arnold was cautioned by Mr. Fraser about the purchase of a motor home from a transient. Thereafter, Mr. Arnold took the motor home to the bank and with Mr. Gray, the seller, met Mr. Fraser. Mr. Fraser *203went to the office of the bank’s title clerk to review the out-of-state title registration and to have the clerk telephone Kentucky to see if the title was good. The bank states that "Mr. Fraser checked on Mr. Gray and the title registration 'to mutually protect C&S Bank and Mr. Arnold.’ ” Mr. Fraser reported to Mr. Arnold that the title was in order. Mr. Arnold states that he did not check the title to the motor home, although he would have had he doubted that the bank did.
There was evidence from which the jury could and did find that Mr. Arnold justly reposed confidence in the bank; Code Ann. § 37-702. Therefore the jury’s verdict and the denial by the trial court of the bank’s motion for directed verdict should be affirmed. Code Ann. § 81 A-150 (a); Walker v. Bush, 234 Ga. 366 (216 SE2d 285) (1975); Young v. Wiggins, 229 Ga. 392 (191 SE2d 863) (1972); Mitchell v. State, 236 Ga. 251 (4) (223 SE2d 650) (1976); Jones v. State, 139 Ga. App. 643 (229 SE2d 121) (1976).