Tarin's, Inc. v. Tinley

How courts have described this case

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

• noting third parties may have enforceable rights under a contract even when not in privity with the contract
• “There are two classes of third-party beneficiaries: intended beneficiaries and incidental beneficiaries. Only intended beneficiaries can seek enforcement of a contract.” (citations omitted)
• “The burden is on the person claiming to be a third-party beneficiary to show that the parties to the contract intended to benefit him.”
• “The promisor must have had reason to know the benefit was contemplated by the promise as one of the motivating causes for entering the contract.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).