Tweeddale v. Tweeddale
Supreme Court of Wisconsin
93 N.W. 440 (1903)
Daniel (defendant) agreed with his mother that if he ever sold land she'd mortgaged to him, he would immediately owe her $1,200, his sister $50, and his brother Edward (plaintiff) $100; after Daniel sold the land, his mother agreed to release the mortgage and discharge Daniel's obligation to her, all without Edward's knowledge, and Edward only later learned of his own $100 entitlement under the original agreement. Edward sued to enforce Daniel's promise, and the trial court dismissed his complaint.
Whether, when one person, in exchange for consideration from another, contracts to pay a third person a sum of money, there is an immediate contractual right created in the third person regardless of the third person's knowledge of the original transaction.