Olney v. Hutt

How courts have described this case

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

• “The [third-party beneficiary’s] rights can rise no higher than those of the promisee.”
• “The [third-party beneficiary’s] rights can rise no higher than those of the promisee.”
• “It is a rule of law, familiar to the profession, that a privity of contract must exist between the parties to an action upon a contract. One whom the law regards as a stranger to the contract cannot maintain an action thereon.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).