Morrisville Lumber Co., Inc. v. Okcuoglu

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “retention of a benefit is not unjust” where owner did not accept material or deal directly with the subcontractor
• holding that “retention of a benefit is not unjust” where owner did not accept material or deal directly with the subcontractor
• no evidence that plaintiff and defendants entered into alleged agreement “in contemplation of conferring a benefit on” plaintiff
• a plaintiff claiming third-party beneficiary status must show that the parties “entered into their agreement in contemplation of conferring a benefit on the plaintiff’
• “The denial of a motion for summary judgment, however, is an interlocutory order, and is not appealable as a matter of right.”
• “The retention of a benefit is not unjust where defendants have paid for it. . . . To allow plaintiff to recover in these circumstances would be to require defendants to pay twice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).