Taylor did not record the sequence number. Likewise, Taylor did not record Nancy's surname or her extension number at the bank.
Taylor executed the NationsBank payment order by crediting Livingston's account with the full amount of the $48,492.29 wire transfer and entering a corresponding debit to NationBank's wire transfer account. That same morning, Taylor called Clamon and said that she "had the hot check and the wire." Hull Bank debited the returned check, credited the wire transfer to Livingston's account, and mailed Livingston a validated deposit slip for the wire transfer. Hull Bank returned the check to Livingston. Clamon's secretary marked the check void and on Wednesday, September 23, 1993, Livingston mailed the insufficient funds check to Pantalion. Livingston could have cleared the check through prosecution, or by reclearingthe check, or by obtaining a cashier's check at the Bank of Santa Fe. On September 22 and 23, 1993, Pantalion had sufficient finds in his bank account at Santa Fe Bank to cover the check. Clamon returned the check to Pantalion because he thought the wire transfer had been received.
Taylor realized the wire transfer was never made when she reconciled Hull Bank's statement with NationsBank on Tuesday, September 28, 1993. Taylor contacted the Bank of Santa Fe and learned that they had never wired the money. At 4:51 p.m. on Thursday, September 30, 1993, Taylor and Dan Wingate, the president of Hull Bank, telephoned Livingston and informed him that the September 22, 1993, wire transfer had not come in. On Friday, October 1, 1993, Hull Bank debited