VICKERS v. FIRST MISSISSIPPI NAT. BANK

No. 54408.

458 So.2d 1055 (1984)

James Dwight VICKERS and William Thomas, Jr., Trustee v. FIRST MISSISSIPPI NATIONAL BANK.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

October 31, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Murray Akers, Greenville, for appellant.

James K. Dukes, Dukes & Jernigan, Hattiesburg, Michael E. Friedlander, Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and DAN M. LEE and ROBERTSON, JJ.


ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I.

This case presents the substantive question whether, in the context of a third party beneficiary contract, a promisee/shareholder in the beneficiary corporation may on proper proof recover damages of and from his promisor consistent with our recent decision in Bruno v. Southeastern Services, Inc., 385 So.2d 620 (Miss. 1980).

Assuming at least a partially affirmative...

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