Dorr v. Massachusetts Title Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of an alleged agreement by the defendant to examine the title to real estate on Kendrick Street in Newton, which the plaintiff had purchased, and to arrange the transfer of the title to the plaintiff free of incumbrances except a specified' mortgage. Writ dated August 28, 1919. In the Superior Court, the action was heard by McLaughlin, J., without a jury.
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Contract for breach of an alleged agreement by the defendant to examine the title to real estate on Kendrick Street in Newton, which the plaintiff had purchased, and to arrange the transfer of the title to the plaintiff free of incumbrances except a specified' mortgage. Writ dated August 28, 1919. In the Superior Court, the action was heard by McLaughlin, J., without a jury. One who had been a bookkeeper for the defendant at the time of the transaction in question testified that while in the employ of the defendant he examined some titles but did mostly office work and took orders from…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover damages because of the failure of the defendant’s employees to exercise due care in the performance of a contract to render services. It is agreed that the defendant Massachusetts Title Insurance Company was authorized to and often did “act in the capacity of a conveyancer, that it examined titlejY] and furnished information in relation thereto, and also acted in the capacity of an insurer of titles in the conduct of its general business.”
Upon the plaintiff’s testimony the following facts could have been found: The plaintiff became a party to a…
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- McLellan v. FullerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
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- Commonwealth v. QuinnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
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