Hopper v. Gurtman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Heher, J.

This is an action in tort for the negligent performance of a duty undertaken by the defendant attorney and counsellor-at-law to examine the title to real estate and to advise his clients whether the title was “good and marketable,” and to what extent encumbered; and the primary question for decision is whether the husband’s inchoate right of curtesy in his wife’s lands is, by force of the law pre-existing the effective date of chapter 71 of the Laws of 1927, as amended by chapter 209 of the Laws of 1928 (Pamph. L. 1927, p. 128; Pamph. L. 1928,…