Wilcox v. Webster Insurance, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• right to enforce a contract as a third-party beneficiary depends on whether the parties intended that the promisor has a direct obligation to the third party
• “[c]ollateral estoppel is an affirmative defense that may be waived if not properly pleaded”
• “[i]t is the burden of the party who seeks the exercise of jurisdiction in his favor . . . clearly to allege facts demonstrating that he is a proper party to invoke judicial resolution of the dispute” [internal quotation marks omitted]
• ‘‘[w]e can conclude, however, on the basis of the current state of the record before us, that the plaintiffs’ claims are not moot because a determination of the controversy in the plain- tiffs’ favor could result in practical relief to the plain- tiffs’’
• discussing standing in Connecticut courts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).