Kent v. Klein

How courts have described this case

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

• family ties not sufficient to find confidential relationship, courts look also at degree of trust, confidence, dependence and inferiority of position of the parties
• “Fraud in the inception we do not require, nor deceit, nor chicanery in any of its varied guises, for it is not necessary that property be wrongfully received. It is enough that it be unconscionably withheld.”
• “Fraud in the inception we do not require, nor deceit, nor chicanery in any of its varied guises, for it is not necessary that property be wrongfully acquired. It is enough that it be unconscionably withheld.”
• constructive trusts are equitable in nature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).