Vournas v. Fidelity National Title Insurance

Opinion

McDONALD, J .

J . — A successor trustee of an express trust (the trust) sued Fidelity National Title Insurance Company (Fidelity). The complaint alleged Fidelity negligently breached its duties to the trust. Fidelity obtained summary judgment. The successor trustee timely filed this appeal. We affirm the judgment.

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Facts

In the mid-1980’s Mr. Skouras, the trustee of the trust, sold three parcels of trust real property. Fidelity was the escrow holder and title insurer for the sales and the trustee of deeds of trust securing purchase money notes payable to the trust that financed the sale…