Lockwood v. Title Insurance

This is an action on the promise of defendant, to pay to plaintiffs the amount of a land award based on a mortgage alleged to have been erroneously set out by defendant on an abstract of title of plaintiffs’, premises furnished by it to the grade crossing commissioners of the city of Buffalo in condemnation proceedings instituted by such commission. The award was made and paid to the mort*297gagees when it should have been made to plaintiffs as owners "of the fee, the mortgage not being a lien on the condemned premises.

The defendant was not legally liable to plaintiffs for this injurious error…