Foreign Mission Board v. Wade

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that for a client to have an independent, tort-based claim against his or her attorney, “the duty tortiously or negligently breached must be a common law duty, not one existing between the parties solely by virtue of the contract”
• affirming the dismissal of a tort claim based solely on the defendant’s “negligent breach of a contractual duty”
• rejecting plain- tiff's attempt to establish a tort action based solely on the negligent breach of a contractual duty with no corresponding common law duty
• “Submitting a written contract to the jury for interpretation is proper only when the language is ambiguous.”
• dismissing the negligence count because the plaintiffs sought to “establish a tort action based solely on the negligent breach of a contractual duty with no corresponding common law duty.”
• disallowing negligence claim of missionary against mission board when relationship was based on contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).