Copenhaver v. Rogers

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a subcontractor was not an intended beneficiary of the contractor’s agreement with the owner that required the contractor to obtain a payment bond
• holding that a subcontractor was not an intended beneficiary of the contractor’s agreement with the owner that required the contractor to obtain a payment bond
• holding that -4- plaintiff grandchildren, whose inheritance was diminished through the alleged negligence of their grandparents’ estate lawyer, were not express third-party beneficiaries of the legal-services contract between the lawyer and the grandparents
• holding that -4- plaintiff grandchildren, whose inheritance was diminished through the alleged negligence of their grandparents’ estate lawyer, were not express third-party beneficiaries of the legal-services contract between the lawyer and the grandparents
• beneficiaries of a will have no cause of action for professional negligence against the attorney who drafted the will
• “It is settled in the Commonwealth that no cause of action exists in [breach of contract] cases absent privity of contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).