Masvidal v. Ochoa

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant committed conversion by “lawfully obtain[ing] possession of the plaintiff’s funds to set up an escrow fund and thereafter convert[ing] the funds for his own use”
• holding that that the defendant committed embezzlement, conversion, and civil theft where “the defendant lawfully obtained possession of the plaintiff’s funds to set up the escrow fund and thereafter converted the funds for his own use”
• civil theft and conversion can be asserted where a party embezzles funds from an escrow account
• civil theft and conversion possible in a contractual relationship where there is evidence of embezzlement
• proof of an oral agreement is barred by the parol evidence rule if it is inconsistent with a prior written agreement between the parties
• conversion can be asserted where a party embezzles funds from an escrow account

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).