Reversing the Superior Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that the spouse of a deceased business partner could not enforce a partnership agreement as a partner when the spouse was neither a party to the agreement nor a third-party beneficiary and the agreement did not permit an assignment of the agreement. The partnership agreement included a provision requiring the remaining partners to pay the personal representative of a deceased partner a value for the deceased partner’s interest based on “net book value,” but neither the surviving partner nor the estate of the deceased partner attempted to enforce that provision, and after more than ten years the widow of the deceased partner began litigation to assert rights in operating the partnership. In re: Estate of Peter J. Caruso III, ___ A.3d ___, ___ Pa. ___, 14 WAP 2023 (9/11/2024), rev’g 1406 WDA 2021 (Pa. Super. 11/15/2022) (non-precedential).