Legal Opinion
Beatrice R. Ruddle v. Luke C. Moore
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 19, 1969No. 21748PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Per curiam
The question on this appeal is what rule governs the distribution of funds recovered from a confidence man who swindled different victims at different times and then commingled the lucre. The District Court was unable to trace the recovered funds to the deposit of any one victim or to conclude that any victim’s deposit had been wholly dissipated prior to the recovery. Accordingly, following equitable principles, it distributed the funds among the victims pro rata according to their respective losses.
Appellant, the last swindled, contends that under the rule in Clayton’s Case, 1 Merivale 572…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Empire State Surety Co. v. Carroll CountyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1912
- Brown v. ChristmanCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
- In re BolognesiCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918
- In re Walter J. Schmidt & Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1923
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