Scottish Heritable Trust v. Peat Marwick Main & Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that potential investor with “no previous connection to either the corporation or the accountant” was not within such a group
• noting \ actual knowledge of a particular plaintiff ... is not necessary if the defendant [accountant] should have had this knowledge\
• interpreting Texas law and determining that the objective of Section 552 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts is to restrict accountants’ liability to a prescribed group and not permit recovery for all foreseeable users of an accountant’s audit report
• \Technical noncompliance with Rule 50(b) may be excused in situations in which the purposes of the rule are satisfied.\
• “Technical noncom- pliance with Rule 50(b) may be excused in situations in which the purposes of the rule are satisfied.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).