Becker v. Crispell-Snyder, Inc.

¶ 1. This case presents the flip side of Sussex Tool & Supply, Inc. v. Mainline Sewer and Water, Inc., 231 Wis. 2d 404, 605 N.W.2d 620 (Ct. App. 1999). Sussex Tool held that the complainant's business establishment was not a third-party beneficiary to a road construction contract since it was only incidentally located near the project like every other business on that street. Id. at 409, 416. But here, the town of Somers recruited Richard and Jon Becker to build a subdivision in the town and the oral contract between the town and the engineering firm, Crispell-Snyder, was made for the express…