Barry v. Covich

How courts have described this case

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• noting that constructive trust is available to prevent unjust enrichment based on wrongful use of information confidentially given
• a constructive trust may be employed in equity in order to avoid the unjust enrichment of one party at the expense of the other where the legal title to the property was obtained by fraud or in violation of a fiduciary relationship
• “A constructive trust may be said to be a device employed in equity, ... in order to avoid the unjust enrichment of one party at the expense of the other where the legal title to the property was obtained by fraud or in violation of a fiduciary relation_”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).