Whyte v. Horn

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing as an exception to requirement of privity situations “where the abstracter should have foreseen that a third party would rely on the abstract.”
• discussion of privity requirements in legal malpractice in context of malpractice action against title insurers
• “In the area of attorneys’ negligence, New York authorities do not extend liability in situations where the act of misfeasance or nonfeasance may cause injury to a third party with whom there is no privity, provided that the attorney is charged merely with simple negligence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).