Stine v. Stewart

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under Texas law a claim of breach of contract is subject to a four-year statute of limitations
• concluding that plaintiff was third-party creditor beneficiary to contract where contract identified existing obligation owed to plaintiff and expressed an intent that defendant satisfy that obligation
• holding decree‘s identification of person by name was sufficiently specific for purposes of third- party beneficiary status
• holding decree‘s identification of person by name was sufficiently specific for purposes of third-party beneficiary status
• holding agreement referring to creditor and amount of unpaid principal and expressly providing how and when debtor would pay was acknowledgment that debt existed
• stating that a breach of contract claim is governed by the four-year statute of limitations and that “a breach of contract claim accrues when the contract is breached”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).