People Ex Rel. Hartigan v. Candy Club

How courts have described this case

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

• describing a constructive trust as “a device used by chancery to compel one who unfairly holds property to convey the property to the party to whom it justly belongs”
• “we would not require a plaintiff, at the pleading stage, to make detailed assertions as to where the money or property is to be found, provided that the complaint alleges that the money was misappropriated in some form.”
• \Two essential elements of a constructive trust action are the existence of identifiable property to serve as the res upon which a trust can be imposed and possession of that res or its product by the person who is to be charged as the constructive trustee.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).