UIV CORP. v. Oswald

How courts have described this case

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• party cannot recover both damages for breach of installment contract and damages for conversion of secured property
• plaintiff cannot not “recover twice from the same defendant merely by denominating one action a tort and the other a breach of contract”
• “[W]hile the claimant . . . is not required to make an election between inconsistent remedies prior to the verdict, he must make, and be given the opportunity to make, an election prior to the formulation and entry of judgment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).