Weavertown Transport Leasing, Inc. v. Moran

OPINION BY JOHNSON, J.:

¶ 1 In this case, we are asked whether a company’s payment of season ticket license fees to a professional sports franchise pursuant to an oral agreement between a company and its employee constitutes consideration, where the sports franchise would have no right to recover against the company who furnishes the fee. We hold that it does not because the sports franchise is merely an incidental beneficiary, payment to whom, without more, cannot serve as consideration between the company and its employee. Moreover, promissory estoppel fails to support the trial court’s…