What is the burden of proving a plaintiff's legal rights in a court of equity?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from McKee v. Peterson, 214 Cal.App.2d 515, 29 Cal.Rptr. 742 (Cal. App. 1963):
4 'The burden is on the one coming into a court of equity for relief to prove not only his legal rights but his clean hands * * *.' (De Garmo v. Goldman (1942), 19 Cal.2d 755, 765, 123 P.2d 1, 6.)
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