Estate of Van Ryan v. McMurtray

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the unclean hands doctrine barred fiduciaries’ claims for quantum meruit damages because they “had violated their fiduciary duties by taking money to which they were not entitled”
• “[T]his Court has held that when it is evident by the facts of the case that the unclean hands doctrine is applicable, the chancellor has a duty to apply that doctrine of its own motion.”
• applying unclean hands doctrine to bar quantum meruit recovery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).