Key legal question
Whether the respondent acquired the bills of exchange in bad faith or with gross negligence under Art. 1006(2) OR.
Extracted holding
The respondent was neither in bad faith nor grossly negligent; she was not obliged to return the bills on this ground.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the circumstances did not make the defect in the underlying transaction obvious. Mere awareness of a general foreign-property-law issue and the amount involved did not require further inquiries absent concrete indications of invalidity.