Bourne v. Lajoie

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• recognizing that “the right to seek reformation of a deed is limited to the original parties to the deed and their successors in title”
• holding that the plaintiff in a legal malpractice action suffered damages in the form of legal fees and expenses she incurred in an attempt to correct the defendant-attorney’s mistake despite the fact that the legal proceedings would eventually result in a correction of the mistake
• stating that reformation is limited to the original parties and their successors in title
• declining to award damages based on missed sale opportunities where such damages were based on mere speculation and were unsupported by evidence
• affirming dismissal of legal malpractice claim on ground that existence of damages was “based only on [plaintiffs] speculation”
• allowing recovery of attorney's fees \incurred in bringing the reformation action to recover title to the land\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).