Baumhauer v. McGill
Baumhauer v. McGill
Opinion of the Court
Appellant bases his right- of recovery on a contract claimed to have been made by him directly with the appellee, whereby appellee contracted for him to render medical services to one Austin Sims, the beneficiary of appellee’s bounty. In this aspect of the case, it was not, as charged, a sine qua non to recovery *434 “that the promise grew out of a consideration moving to said McGill;” it was sufficient though the consideration did not '“move” or inure to the benefit of McGill, but for the benefit of a party not privy to the contract. — 9 Cyc. 316 (4); 6 R. C. L. § 274. It is thus expressed in 1 Elliott on Contracts, § 252: “While the consideration must move from the promisee at the instance of the promiser, it is not necessary that the promisor be the recipient of it. It need not pass directly to the latter, but under the prevailing rule may move from the promisee to a third person at the promisor’s request.”
The detriment to the promisee in the performance of services and loss of time was a sufficient valuable consideration.
In view of the erroneous instruction, the judgment of the trial court must be reversed, and the cause remanded for another trial.
Reversed and remanded.
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