Woodward v. Dietrich

KELLY, Judge:

In this case we are called upon to determine whether a party may be held liable for damages proximately resulting from a person’s reasonable reliance on fraudulent misrepresentations, despite the fact that such a person had no privity with the party making the misrepresentations and was not specifically intended to rely on the misrepresentations, when the reliance was nonetheless specially foreseeable. We find that such a cause of action may be recognized so long as under the particular circumstances of the case presented the liability to be recognized is not indefinite as to…