CATHY, DERECK M., PEOPLE v

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the appellants were third-party beneficiaries to the contract where they “signed the minutes of the special meeting at which the directors resolved to enter into the” contract, even though they were not expressly mentioned in the contract
• explaining that a nonparty’s signature on a party’s behalf supported third-party beneficiary status
• describing a nonparty’s involvement in a contract as “a fact that supports his third-party beneficiary status”
• reserving until trial “factual issues as to . . . the circumstances of negotiation and execution of the [contract] and the parties’ intent”
• “[I]t is difficult to imagine what purpose [a contracting corporation] had in entering into the Agreement other than to benefit . . . its shareholders . . . .”
• distinguishing cases with contracts containing such provisions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).