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Joint Adventure-Actions At Law For Share Of Profits, Hobart Taylor, Jr.
Joint Adventure-Actions At Law For Share Of Profits, Hobart Taylor, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
Action in assumpsit for money due under a contract whereby defendant leased plaintiff's entire clothing factory for the manufacture of 20,000 coats for which defendant held a government contract. By the terms of the agreement, plaintiff was to receive one-half of the net profits. The agreement expressly stated that they were not to be partners. The coats were manufactured pursuant to the agreement. Held, a mere agreement to share profits is, between the parties, insufficient to create a partnership, and assumpsit may be maintained by the members of a joint adventure inter sese for the agreed share of profits. …