Driebe v. Cox

How courts have described this case

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• seller had no claim against buyer's attorney for negligence in drafting deed because the seller knew the attorney represented the buyer
• seller had no claim against buyer’s attorney for negligence in drafting deed because the seller knew the attorney represented the buyer
• a party with his own lawyer representing him in a transaction may not choose to limit his attorney's role and then rely on the attorney for the other party in that transaction
• a party with his own lawyer representing him in a transaction may not choose to limit his attorney’s role and then rely on the attorney for the other party in that transaction
• “[T]he trend in Georgia has been to relax the rule of strict contractual privity in malpractice actions, recognizing that under certain circumstances, professionals owe a duty of reasonable care to parties who are not their clients.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).