McDonald v. Pettus

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• holding that the determination of public policy lies almost exclusively in the legislative domain, and the decision of the General Assembly in that regard will not be interfered with by the courts in the absence of palpable error
• explaining that the estate and the deceased are the same party in a contract dispute
• recognizing “that the rights and liabilities under a contract, including rights under a contract requiring personal skill, pass by operation of law to the executor or administrator of a deceased person” (citations omitted)
• rejecting argument by children that privity with father’s attorney existed because children were in privity with their father who was in privity with the attorney

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).