Nelson v. Preston

In view of the determination of the trial court and the finding of the nonexistence of an agency, the question turns upon the right of the appellant to have been permitted to amend his pleadings to prove unjust enrichment and “implied” or quasi contract. Quasi contracts are “a class of obligations which are imposed or created by law without regard to the assent of the party bound, on the ground that they are dictated by reason and justice, . . . and the obligation arises not from consent, . . . but from the law or natural equity. Such contracts rest on the equitable principle that a person…