Backus v. Chilivis

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• third-party beneficiaries may only sue in their names where it clearly appears from the contract that it was intended for their benefit
• third-party beneficiaries cannot enforce contract unless it clearly appears from the contract that it was intended for their benefit
• third party beneficiaries cannot enforce contract unless it clearly appears from the contract that it was intended for their benefit
• “In order for a third party to have standing to enforce a contract!,] • • • it must clearly appear from the contract that it was intended for his benefit.”
• “In order for a third party to have standing to enforce a contract[,] . . . it must clearly appear from the contract that it was intended for his benefit.”
• in order for third-party beneficiary to have standing to enforce a contract, it must clearly appear in the contract’s terms that it was intended for her benefit; merely because she could benefit from its performance is insufficient

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).