Duty v. First State Bank of Oregon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an action for money had and received did not lie where the defendant “did not retain the proceeds for the limited purpose for which it was entitled to retain them, but turned them over to” a third party
• denying defendant’s motion for directed verdict on conversion claim where “the money was wrongfully received by [the defendant], which had no claim to the funds that Bank was supposed to hold in trust”
• beneficiary of life insurance policy in which insured reserves the right to change the beneficiary does not have a vested interest in the proceeds before the death of the insured

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).