Page v. Frazier

How courts have described this case

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• holding that whether attorney-client relationship existed was a disputed issue to be resolved by the trier of fact
• declining to find attorneys negligent to nonclients for faulty title search where attorney was under “an independent and potentially conflicting duty to a client”
• noting how \the relationship can be implied from the conduct of the parties\ (citing DeVaux, 444 N.E.2d at 357)
• refusing to extend 70's application to mortgagors purchasing unimproved land in the absence of suggestions or implications in the clear language -23- of the statute
• plaintiff who was told that defendant represented bank’s interest and that plaintiff might get his own attorney was not entitled to rely on defendant’s performance
• no liability where defendant did not know that plaintiffs would rely upon his services

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).