Shinn v. Edwin Yee, Ltd.

*217OPINION OF THE COURT BY

MENOR, J.

This is an action for an accounting predicated upon the alleged existence of a joint venture. The plaintiffs below are James S. Shinn and Kenneth Shinn, a co-partnership doing business as Shinn Brothers Foundation, and James S. Shinn, an individual (hereinafter “Shinn”). The defendants are Edwin Yee, Ltd., and Edwin K. Q. Yee, an indivdual (hereinafter “Yee”), and Condominium Hawaii, Inc.

The plaintiffs in their complaint contended that the parties had entered into a joint venture for the development of the Kahala Towers condominium project. The purported…