Questão jurídica principal
Whether the bank’s principal appeal against the reduction of damages for client contributory negligence should succeed.
Decisão extraída
The client’s conduct on the separate account lacked adequate causation to the loss on the personal account; no contributory negligence could reduce the damages.
Fundamentação extraída
The employee’s theft was imputable to the bank under Art. 101 CO. Given the independence of the two accounts and the intentional wrongdoing of the bank’s auxiliary, the client’s conduct on the other account was not, according to ordinary life experience, apt to cause the loss on the personal account.