 | William John Tossell - 1897 - 700 páginas
...the h jlder of any such checks. The rule is well established in this state in cases of contract, that if one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third, the latter may maintain an action upon it, though the consideration did not move from him. It is hardly... | |
 | William John Tossell - 1905 - 892 páginas
...of assumpsit could have been maintained upon it by the trust company, it being well settled, 'that if one person makes a promise to another, for the benefit of a third person, that third person may maintain an action at law on that promise.' * * * And if such were the... | |
 | Edward Avery Harriman - 1896 - 404 páginas
...the common law is Lawrence v. Fox,* in which the New York court laid down the principle "that where one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third person, that third person may maintain an action upon it." This rule has no foundation in principle,... | |
 | William John Tossell - 1906 - 924 páginas
...services. We are inclined to think and to hold, that the principle which has obtained in Ohio, that where one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third, .such third person may maintain an action Lucas County. upon the promise, applies to the agreement... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Hun - 1882 - 804 páginas
...certificates reliance has been placed upon the authorities sustaining the principle that where one party makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third, the latter is at liberty to enforce such promise. But these cases maintain this proposition only so far... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - 1896 - 668 páginas
...said work," upon the doctrine, as asserted generally by some of the authorities, that where a party makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third, the latter may maintain an action upon it, though the consideration did not move from him. Before reaching... | |
 | David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield - 1898 - 1208 páginas
...is then cited; and the remark of Buller, J., in Marchington v. Vernon, I B. & P. ioi, note b, that " if one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third, that third may maintain an action upon it," is quoted. 2. Early Massachusetts Cases. — Felton v.... | |
 | Edward Avery Harriman - 1901 - 456 páginas
...the common law is Lawrence v. Fox,1 in which the New York court laid down the principle " that where one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third person, that third person may maintain an action upon it." This rule has no foundation in principle,... | |
 | International Correspondence Schools - 1903 - 636 páginas
...which it rests.1" Following the trend of the English decisions in their adoption of the doctrine that "if one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third, that third may maintain an action upon it" (which, as before stated, is restricted in England to a... | |
 | George William Warvelle - 1902 - 696 páginas
...branch of the law, and the liability of the purchaser has been placed upon the broad ground that, where one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third person, such third person may himself take advantage of the promise and maintain an action upon it.42... | |
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that where one person makes a promise to another for the benefit of a third person, that third person may maintain an action upon it. 
