Golden v. Woodward

How courts have described this case

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• noting that, where a claim is based on unjust enrichment, a plaintiff need not establish the defendant’s fraud or misconduct
• noting that an unjust enrichment action exists to prevent “‘the wrongful retention of a benefit, or the retention of money or property of another, in violation of good conscience and fundamental principles of justice or equity’” (citation omitted)
• allowing a vendor’s lien on property when party retained property without paying the agreed-upon price
• ”[T]he character of a pleading is to be determined by its contents”
• plaintiff alleging unjust enrichment claim need not establish defendant’s fraud or misconduct
• “An action for ‘unjust enrichment’ exists to prevent the wrongful retention of a benefit, or the retention of money or property of another, in violation of good conscience and fundamental principles of justice or equity.” (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).