McLane v. Russell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an attorney may owe a duty to-a third party if that party can show it was the intended beneficiary of the attorney-client relationship
• concluding that third-party benefici- aries could bring professional negligence claim against drafting attorney for negligently failing to advise testa- tor of need to sever joint tenancy to ensure that testa- tor’s interest in farm transferred to named beneficiaries of will
• finding the Pelham test met for an intended beneficiary under a will
• joint tenancy of property was not severed so that property could pass as intended in the will

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).