Ellis v. Photo America Corp.

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• permitting quantum meruit recovery where defendant proposed commission formula during negotiations, and trial court’s use of formula supported by record
• under quantum meruit, “ ‘the measure of recovery is the reasonable value of plaintiffs services’ ”
• an employee’s fraudulent misappropriation of his employer’s funds is a transaction separate from the employment, so the employee may obtain the equitable remedy of quantum meruit for work done
• “It is a fundamental rule that one seeking equitable relief cannot take advantage of his own wrong”
• “It is a fundamental rule that one seeking equitable relief cannot take advantage of his own wrong”
• under quantum meruit, \`the measure of recovery is the reasonable value of plaintiff's services'\

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