Petty v. Sloan

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the rights of “third-party beneficiaries are affected with all the infirmities of the contract as would have been between parties to the contract”
• \In getting at [the parties'] intention we of course do not determine what the state of the mind was of the parties at the time the contract was executed but rather what their intention was as actually embodied and expressed in the instrument as written.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).