Auric v. Continental Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the beneficiary of a will may maintain an action against an attorney who negligently drafted or supervised the execution of the will
• recognizing that an attorney may be held liable to the beneficiaries of a will harmed by negligent drafting of the will on the behalf of a testator
• recognizing that an attorney may be held liable to the beneficiaries of a will harmed by negligent drafting of the will on the behalf of a testator
• concluding “the beneficiary of a will may maintain an action against an attorney who negligently drafted or supervised the execution of the will even though the beneficiary is not in privity with that attorney”
• concluding “the beneficiary of a will may maintain an action against an attorney who negligently drafted or supervised the execution of the will even though the beneficiary is not in privity with that attorney”
• \Allowing a will beneficiary to maintain a suit against an attorney who negligently drafts or supervises the execution of a will is one way to make an attorney accountable for his negligence.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).