Navajo Freight Lines, Inc. v. Moore

How courts have described this case

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• payment of money contingent on promisor establishing fund from which money would be paid
• where defendant agreed to pay plaintiff a percentage of funds to be collected, an implied duty arose to make a good faith attempt to collect funds
• “it is a principle of fundamental justice that if a promisor is himself the cause of the failure of performance of a condition upon which his own liability depends, he cannot take advantage of that failure”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).