1ST AMERICAN TITLE INS. v. 1st Title Serv. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• refusing to recognize an abstractor's liability in tort \to any and all foreseeably injured parties\ but permitting a contract action on a third-party beneficiary theory
• refusing to approve “open-ended kind of abstracter’s liability” based on duty of care to any and all persons who might foreseeably use and rely on the abstract
• no liability for title company where third party did not rely on abstract of title
• Moyer inapplicable because court found status as intended third-party beneficiary; abstractors do not owe duty to all foreseeable users
• title abstractor liable to title insurance company for negligently prepared abstracts
• property purchaser's reliance upon defective title negligently prepared by abstracter

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).