Cummins v. U. S. Life Title Insurance

We are asked to determine the liability of a title insurance company for nondisclosure of a municipal ordinance predictive of the later adoption of a special assessment to defray the cost of construction of canal bulkheads in the City of Long Beach.

The extent of appellant title company’s obligation is to be determined by reference to the provisions of the policy of title insurance which it issued on November 10, 1970. Under that *641policy appellant insured against damages sustained because of unmarketability of title "by reason of liens or incumbrances affecting title at the date hereof’,…