Farwest Steel Corp. v. Mainline Metal Works, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a subcontractor’s supplier did not unjustly enrich a general contractor even though the general contractor failed to pay the subcontractor in full for the supplied materials
• holding that a subcontractor’s supplier did not unjustly enrich a general contractor even though the general contractor failed to pay the subcontractor in full for the supplied materials
• requiring the defendant’s enrichment to be “at the 13 expense of another contrary to equity”
• “[EJnrichment [must] be unjust both under the circumstances and as between the two parties to the transaction.”
• Each case authorizing an unjust enrichment claim has “involved some clear act of bad faith by the defendant resulting in the defendant’s unjust enrichment at the plaintiffs expense.”
• court used Miller Act cases to reach same result under Washington law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).