Williams v. Polgar

While important, the issue in this case is a relatively narrow one.

Michigan already permits a buyer of property who has relied on a faulty abstract to his detriment to recover from the abstracter, even though there is no clear contractual privity between them, if the abstracter in fact knew the buyer would rely on the abstract.1

This case presents the issue whether a faulty abstracter should likewise be liable to a buyer he should have foreseen would rely on the abstract as well as to the buyer he knew would rely on it. The question boils down to whether there should be liability for…