California Court of Appeal

In an intra-family dispute arising from the dissolution of a business partnership and involving a complaint and cross-complaint for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, conspiracy, misappropriation of trade secrets, and accounting, judgment of the trial court is reversed where the assumption that a one-person business partnership can exist under California's Revised Uniform Partnership Act, which underpins the monetary portion of the judgment, is erroneous. If a partnership consists of only two persons, the partnership dissolves by operation of law when one of them departs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/10/2011
• Published 08/10/2011

Judges

• BEDSWORTH

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel