Detroit Bank and Trust Co. v. Chicago Flame Hardening Co.
United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
541 F.Supp. 1278 (1982)
Chicago Flame Hardening's (defendant) 1964 resolution promised a monthly stipend to owners' widows upon their husbands' deaths; Roxanne Scott (represented by Detroit Bank, plaintiff), aware of the resolution but never acting upon it or keeping it in mind, saw the company rescind the benefit for her specifically in 1971 to bolster company finances, and her husband died later that year, with Scott not learning of the rescission until afterward.
Whether, where a promise intended to benefit a third party is later rescinded, such third party has any rights to the promise where she knew of it prior to rescission but did not act upon it and was later hindered from asserting her rights by health problems that arose after the rescission.