Lee Lumber Co. v. Hetherwick Title Co.

This is a suit for damages. The defendant company is engaged in the business' of investigating matters of record which relate to or may affect the title to real property, and to furnish its employer with an abstract thereof. The Lee Lumber Company, Limited, owns many tracts of timbered lands, and a large quantity- of growing timber upon lands the title to which is vested in others. It entered into a contract with the Hetherwick Title Company, Inc., to furnish it with abstracts of title to all of its holdings. The defendant company performed the work, but the abstract it furnished to the…