East Peoria Community High School District No. 309 v. Grand Stage Lighting Co.

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• finding that agreement requiring one party to implement a procedure for paying subcontractors, pay subcontractors promptly, and submit evidence of payment was for the direct benefit of the subcontractors
• “if a contract is entered into for a direct benefit of a third person not a party thereto, such third person may sue for breach thereof”
• “The first issue for review is whether the Bond Act mandated that [the high school] require [the general contractor] to obtain a payment bond.” (Emphasis added.)
• contractor’s promise “to submit satisfactory evidence [to the school] that all indebtedness had been paid” was intended to protect subcontractor who could not have obtained a mechanic’s lien on a public project
• clause required proof that subcontractor had been paid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).