Farmers Ins. Exchange v. Zerin

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a plaintiff must either have title to or be “entitled to immediate possession” of the allegedly converted property (internal quotation marks omitted)
• stating that California law allows plaintiffs to recover benefits that the defendant unjustly retained
• “Under California law, conversion is the wrongful exercise of dominion over the property of another.”
• “[A] mere contractual right of payment, without more, will not suffice” in terms of stating a claim for conversion
• “[A] mere 8 contractual right of payment, without more, will not suffice” to prevail on a claim for 9 conversion.
• “A party need only allege that it is ‘entitled to immediate possession at the time of conversion.’ ... However, a mere contractual right of payment, without more, will not suffice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).