Legal Opinion
Bruce Lee Jorgensen v. Benjamin B. Cassiday, III Salvador Laurel, Bruce Lee Jorgensen v. Benjamin B. Cassiday, III Salvador Laurel
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 6, 2003No. 01-17458, 01-17541PublishedCited by 452 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge.
Benjamin B. Cassiday, III and Salvador Laurel appeal from the judgment assessing damages from the breach of an oral joint venture agreement with Bruce L. Jorgensen. Jorgensen cross-appeals.
I
Bruce L. Jorgensen, Benjamin B. Cassi-day, III, and John Perkin are members of the Hawaii bar. In May of 1996, they entered into a joint venture to locate and jointly represent heirs to the estate of Larry Hillblom. Hillblom had recently been killed in a plane crash leaving substantial assets and the possibility that heirs might be found in the Philippines or Vietnam. They…
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