Adams v. Crater Well Drilling, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• in which we rejected the claim that damages for tortious conduct, duress, could not be recovered in an assumpsit action for money had and received.
• punitives allowed in a money had and received action where facts showed defendant acted in tortious manner
• “It is the well-established general rule that it is not duress to institute or threaten to institute civil suits, or take proceedings in court, or for any person to declare that he intends to use the courts wherein to insist on what he believes to be his legal rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).