Union Healthcare, Inc. v. Morgan

¶ 47. I respectfully dissent. It is my view that the purported addendum to the contract excusing McLain from further obligation should Margaret Muse cease to be employed at the hospital was not supported by new consideration and was, therefore, unenforceable. There was no new benefit flowing to the contracting authority, which was Laird Hospital and not its administrator, Margaret Muse. Neither did McLain commit herself to anything that she was not already legally obligated to do or legally bind herself to forego some previously existing contractual benefit. These are issues of law based upon…