People ex rel. Handy v. Newton

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that payor’s desire to avoid potential liability or at least a complex lawsuit was sufficient to avoid volunteer status
• possibility of personal and in rem liability for damage caused by another held sufficient for subrogation
• possibility of personal and in rem liability for damage caused by another held sufficient for subrogation
• payments involuntary where “made under legal compulsion to avoid potential in personam and in rem liability, or at least a complex lawsuit”
• “The rights of an assignee differ from those of a person entitled to subrogation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).