Kern v. Freed Co., 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 the defendant was not unjustly enriched because he had contracted to receive his benefits from others
• holding that plaintiff failed to state a claim for unjust enrichment given that there was an express contract at the heart of the dispute
• holding that the burden of loss was not allowed to be shifted to an innocent party who was simply receiving the benefits to which he was entitled under an existing contract.
• quasi-contract insures “that a man shall not be allowed to enrich himself unjustly at the expense of another”
• quasi-contract insures “that a man shall not be allowed to enrich himself unjustly at the expense of another”
• “If the agent exceeds his authority, the principal is not bound by the agent’s acts.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).