Castleman Construction Company v. Pennington

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a title insurance company was negligent in discovering prior encumbrances but still entitled to subrogation
• finding that title company was subrogated to insureds’ claim despite the company’s negligence in failing to discover defects in title
• finding that despite the plaintiffs negligence, the defendant’s “want of care and diligence ... demands that the equity” would not prevent the plaintiff from being subrogated to the claims
• finding the plaintiff entitled to subrogation despite negligence in failing to discover title defects
• discussing requirement of mistake in the context of degree of negligence involved
• ordinary negligence alone will not be a complete bar to subrogation where in spite of such negligence the equities are still in favor of the subrogee

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).