Batdorf v. Transamerica Title Insurance

The action below was brought by the Bat-dorfs and Kortlevers to collect costs and attorneys' fees incurred by them when Transamerica Title Insurance Company elected to tender the face amount of their title insurance policies instead of defending them in a lawsuit to quiet title. The Batdorfs and Kortlevers appeal from the order denying their motion for summary judgment and from the order granting Transamerica's motion for summary judgment.

Ben Leibrandt received a patent from the United States in 1931 to lands in Alaska. The patent was not recorded until 1971. In 1957, Leibrandt conveyed his…