Zoeller v. East Chicago Second Century, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• “There was an express contract in this transaction, but it was not one to which [the claimants] were parties. . . . That transaction is thus not a bar to the [claimants’] claim for unjust enrichment . . . .”
• “There was an express contract in this transaction, but it was not one to which [the claimants] were parties. . . . That transaction is thus not a bar to the [claimants’] claim for unjust enrichment . . . .”
• “A claim for unjust enrichment is a legal fiction invented by the common law courts in order to permit a recovery where the circumstances are such that under the law of natural and immutable justice there should be a recovery.” (cleaned up)
• “A claim for unjust enrichment ‘is a legal fiction invented by the common law courts in order to permit a recovery . . . where the circumstances are such that under the law of natural and 11 immutable justice there should be a recovery[.]’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).