Ray v. Winter

How courts have described this case

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

• commenting that “where one voluntarily acts as an agent for another, a fiduciary relationship exists as a matter of law”
• noting that “[cjonstructive trusts are divided into two general classes: one in which actual fraud is considered as equitable grounds for raising the trust, and the other, where there exists a fiduciary relationship and a subsequent abuse of such relationship”
• finding the existence of principal-agent relationship, where one party undertook to purchase land for another party
• in lieu of fraud, constructive trust requires a fiduciary duty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).