Williams v. Polgar

391 Mich. 6 (1974)

214 N.W.2d 149

WILLIAMS

v.

POLGAR

No. 14 May Term 1973, Docket No. 54,422.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 14, 1974.

Perica, Breithart & Carmody, for plaintiffs.

Rowe, Talon & Jones, P.C., for defendant American Title Insurance Company.

WILLIAMS, J.

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…