TORTS - NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATIONS - INFORMATION GRATUITOUSLY SUPPLIED

Authors

Michigan Law Review, University of Michigan Law School

Abstract

Plaintiffs, who were liquidating trustees of a building and loan association, alleged that the association requested defendant to send it a copy of a certain will, but that defendant, who was trustee under the will, sent the association a copy of another will. Since the testators bore the same name, the association did not realize the error, but relied on the copy and suffered a loss which it would not have suffered if it had known the true state of facts. Plaintiffs sued to recover the loss. Held, plaintiffs have not stated a cause of action, inasmuch as they did not allege (1) that it was part of defendant's business to furnish copies of wills, and (2) that defendant knew the object of the association's request. Renn v. Provident Trust Co. of Philadelphia, 328 Pa. 481, 196 A. 8 (1938).

Recommended Citation

Michigan Law Review, TORTS - NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATIONS - INFORMATION GRATUITOUSLY SUPPLIED, 36 Mich. L. Rev. 1223 (1938).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol36/iss7/22