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· 6/21/1990

Alleco Financial Services v. Schor

Citations

  • 21 Va. Cir. 154
  • 1990 Va. Cir. LEXIS 283

How courts have described this case

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  • finding fraudster's wife liable for unjust enrichment where she benefited from the underlying scheme despite not personally participating
  • finding the plaintiff’s “complete confidence and reliance” in the defendant to be sufficient to create a fiduciary duty under state law
  • finding plaintiffs established unjust enrichment claim at trial where defendant’s actions caused plaintiffs to pay artificially inflated prices
  • “When considering an unjust enrichment claim, a court’s ‘essential inquiry’ is one of ‘equity and good conscience.’”
  • experienced rare coin investor owed a fiduciary duty to his “extremely close friend[],” who placed “complete trust and confidence” in the investor to “facilitate[e]... coin purchases for [his] best interest”

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Judges: Fitzpatrick

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