Watson Truck & Supply Co., Inc. v. Males
New Mexico Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RANSOM, Justice.
James Males appeals the trial court’s finding of a resulting trust in settlement proceeds from a previous lawsuit and the court’s consequent award of $85,724.80 plus interest in favor of Watson Truck & Supply Company and of Home Insurance Company. Finding a lack of substantial evidence to support a resulting trust or breach of a contractual duty of good faith owed by Males to Watson and Home, we reverse.
Males was injured in a natural gas explosion at the warehouse of Watson Truck & Supply Company. He sued Watson and the various contractors who built the Watson warehouse…
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