Parties to actions on contracts; action by beneficiary
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case AT&T Mobility, LLC v. National Ass'n for Stock Car Auto Racing, Inc. (2007)
Most recently applied in 598 F. App'x 623 - Ronnie P. DeWeese v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. (January 2015)
Orig
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) As a general rule, an action on a contract, whether the contract is expressed, implied, by parol, under seal, or of record, shall be brought in the name of the party in whom the legal interest in the contract is vested, and against the party who made it in person or by agent.
(b) The beneficiary of a contract made between other parties for his benefit may maintain an action against the promisor on the contract.
Current official text: Official Code of Georgia Annotated (LexisNexis). Digitized from the Internet Archive scan of the OCGA. Reproduced from public-domain Georgia statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.