Questão jurídica principal
Whether the GbR's claim against the bank still existed when assigned on 1996-09-26
Decisão extraída
The claim had not been extinguished by the claimant's 1995 payment and therefore could still be validly assigned.
Fundamentação extraída
A third-party payment only has discharge effect if the payer clearly intends to satisfy the debtor's obligation; that intent was absent here.