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· 2/1/1965

Burns v. Washington Savings & Great Southern Savings & Loan Ass'n

Citations

  • 171 So. 2d 322
  • 251 Miss. 789
  • 1965 Miss. LEXIS 903

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that in order to maintain an action for breach of contract as a third-party beneficiary to the contract, “the right of the third party beneficiary to maintain an action on the contract must spring from the terms of the contract itself’
  • vendor of homes denied third party beneficiary status to un-consumated loan commitments to purchasers; vendor had received written notice of commitments
  • “[T]he right of the third party beneficiary to maintain an action on the contract must spring from the terms of the contract itself.”
  • daughter was not bound by arbitration clause found in the contract signed by her father

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Judges: Brady, Gillespie, Jones, Kyle, Rodgers

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