Nitro Distributing, Inc. v. Dunn

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining a mere incidental benefit to the third-party insufficient to confer third-party beneficiary status
• “To be bound as a third-party beneficiary, the terms of the contract must clearly express intent to benefit that party or an identifiable class of which the party is a member.”
• non-signatories seeking to compel arbitration were sufficiently close since they were members of entity which was party to arbitration agreement
• “In civil actions, of course, the right to trial by jury attachés only to actions at law for which damages may be awarded, not to suits in equity.”
• “In civil actions, of course, the right to trial by jury attaches only to actions at law for which damages may be awarded, not to suits in equity.”
• “courts will enforce contracts according to their plain meaning”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).