CONTRACTS-BENEFICIARIES-RIGHT OF EMPLOYEE TO SUE ON A CONTRACT MADE BETWEEN EMPLOYER AND UNION

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Abstract

Defendant agreed with an employees' union that its employees would not be discharged without cause or without a hearing. The plaintiff, who entered into an employment contract with the defendant for an indefinite term, was discharged by the latter without a hearing, and sued as a third party beneficiary for breach of the defendant's agreement with the union. Held, in Johnson v. Am. Ry Express Co., that this agreement was a valid third party beneficiary contract, and so enforcible by the plaintiff who was one of the parties intended to be benefited by it.

Recommended Citation

CONTRACTS-BENEFICIARIES-RIGHT OF EMPLOYEE TO SUE ON A CONTRACT MADE BETWEEN EMPLOYER AND UNION, 31 Mich. L. Rev. 124 (1932).
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