Manor Junior College v. Kaller's Inc.

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• Holding that purchaser must be in privity of contract with a builder/vendor to maintain action for breach of the implied warranty of workmanlike performance
• recognizing that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court had eliminated the requirement of privity in breach of warranty cases “so as to achieve a symmetry between cases brought in tort under Section 402A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts (1965
• finding that an oral contract between a contractor and subcontractor to install a new roof because there was no evidence that the subcontractor intended the college to be a beneficiary of the contract
• explaining that third-party intended-beneficiary status should be restricted to a “narrow class”
• affirming dismissal but analyzing claim of third-party beneficiary status of property owner in suit against subcontractor involving oral contract
• owner of building did not have standing to sue for breach of verbal contract between contractor and subcontractor to perform repairs on building

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).