West Branch State Bank v. Gates

How courts have described this case

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• stating that it is well settled that a rule 179(b) motion is essential to preserve error in the event a trial court fails to resolve an issue that was submitted to it for adjudication
• debtor gratuitously transferred grain bin to brother; not unjust enrichment to permit foreclosure of remaining collateral
• “Unjust enrichment is an equitable principle mandating that one shall not be permitted to unjustly enrich oneself at the expense of another or to receive property or benefits without making compensation for them.”
• “Since the creditor has a right to choose which collateral to foreclose upon, we think that the creditor also has the right to release specific collateral without having its value credited or set off against the underlying debt.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).