Southern Life Ins. Co. v. Citizens Bank of Nashville

This is an action brought by a party who is in privity to the contract for the use and benefit of another party who is not. Accordingly, the amendment of 1949 to Code § 3-108 (Ga. L. 1949, p. 455) adding the last sentence, which provides that “The beneficiary of a contract made between other parties for his benefit may maintain an action against the promissor on said contract,” does not apply here. Whether the administratrix of the estate of J. Frank Mathews had such an interest in this insurance policy as to maintain an action on it in her own name is not before us. The remainder of this…