Title Ins. Co. of Minn. v. SMITH, DEBNAM

How courts have described this case

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• finding a duty existed where the defendant attorney “furnished the title certificate to plaintiff, a non-client, for the purpose of inducing plaintiff to issue a title policy for the benefit of his client”
• duty applies where the attorney renders a title opinion upon which the non-client is entitled to rely
• attorney owed third party duty of care where he furnished a title certificate to the non-client plaintiff for the purpose of inducing the plaintiff to issue a title policy for the benefit of his client
• attorney owed third party duty of care where he furnished a title certificate to the non-client plaintiff for the purpose of inducing the plaintiff to issue a title policy for the benefit of his client
• nominal damage award proper even though no showing of actual damage
• action for damages due to attorney malpractice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).