United States v. 3,510 Barrels, More or Less, of Beer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that liability for negligent misrepresentation may lie when the plaintiff is a member of a “limited class whose reliance [on the misrepresentations] is specifically foreseen”
• holding that an accounting firm can be held liable for professional negligence in rendering service to a limited partnership because it was “specifically foreseen” that the limited partners would rely on the accountant’s representation”
• holding that “an accountant may be held liable by a third party for professional negligence when that third party is a member of a limited class whose reliance on the accountant’s representation is specifically foreseen”
• limiting account liability to third parties whose reliance on the account’s representation is specifically foreseen
• finding limited partners were owed a duty of care by an accounting firm their general partner hired to perform accounting work
• finding limited partners were owed a duty of care by an accounting firm their general partner hired to perform accounting work

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).