Cruz v. Commonwealth Land Title Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Wallach, J.
By deed dated September 30, 1983, and for a price not disclosed in the record, certain real property in Manhattan was transferred to plaintiff by one Elmore Meekins. Present at the closing through an agent, or, as the complaint calls him, a "closer”, was defendant Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, who had the month before examined Meekins’ title, certified it as marketable, and agreed to issue plaintiff its standard form of title insurance policy upon payment of a fee. At the closing, plaintiff paid defendant a fee sufficient to purchase title insurance…
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