Bonvillian v. Lawyers Title Insurance Corp.

REDMANN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from the dismissal, on exception of no cause of action, of his suit against his land title insurer for a claimed loss due to a defect in the insured title.

The insured property had been the separate property of an intestate decedent whose widow had been adjudged his sole heir and placed in possession of the property. Plaintiff purchased from the widow after securing title insurance from the defendant.

A few years thereafter a daughter born to the widow prior to her marriage to the decedent caused the reopening of decedent’s succession and was placed in…