Court Opinion

ID: 9582297
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:24:53.834888+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:37:37.521759
License: Public Domain

Deen, Presiding Judge,
concurring specially.
Although I concur fully in the result of the captioned case, it is appropriate to observe that, in Division 4 of the majority opinion, appellee Powers would most accurately be characterized, under generally recognized legal principles, as an “incidental third-party beneficiary” as distinguished from an intended beneficiary of the agreements and permit. Powers was not a third-party beneficiary of the agreements or the permit in the sense that he would have standing to seek enforcement of the agreements and permit. The fact that he would benefit from the performance of a contract makes him, at best, an incidental beneficiary. See Corbin on Contracts, Vol. 1 (1952), § 779C; Calamari & Perillo, Contracts (1970), p. 380 et seq. Otherwise, I concur fully with the majority opinion.