equitable accounting
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 369 U.S. 469 - Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · 1962Most cited · 2,949 citing opinions
The necessary prerequisite to the right to maintain a suit for an equitable accounting, like all other equitable remedies, is...the absence of an adequate remedy at law. Consequently, in order to maintain such a suit on a cause of action cognizable at law, the plaintiff must be able to show that the 'accounts between the parties' are of such a 'complicated nature' that only a court of equity can satisfactorily unravel them.
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