What is the test for a party to a contract to sue a third party for interference with the contractual relationship?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Herron v. State Farm Mutual Ins. Co., 10 Cal.Rptr. 120 (Cal. App. 1960):

'The stated principle has been sanctioned also by our own Court in the recent case of Parker v. Brown, 195 S.C. 35, 10 S.E.2d 625, 631, wherein it was declared that: 'A party to a contract would have a cause of action against a third person for interference with the contractual relationship, but before liability could arise certain factors and elements must appear, the first of which is the existence of a valid contract.'

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