Mallette v. Children's Friend and Service

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• noting that a party must establish that the \representor\ intended the representation to induce another to act on it
• establishing the legal standard that adoptive parents would not have adopted the child if they had known of the child's medical and genetic background
• adoptive parents instituted action individually and as parents and next friends of adopted child
• “We are in complete agreement with these cases in holding that public policy does not preclude the [plaintiffs] from maintaining a claim for negligent mis-' representation .... In fact recognition of such a tort would promote public policy”

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