Kaarela v. Birkhead

How courts have described this case

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• in absence of formal escrow agreement, letters between attorneys established terms of escrow agreement, and escrow agent’s deposit of funds constituted acceptance of terms recited in correspondence
• escrow holder is not agent of either party but is fiduciary of each
• “The deposit of the escrow funds constituted an acceptance of the escrow arrangement”
• escrow holder is not agent of either party but is fiduciary of each

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).