Legal Opinion
Weltman v. Silna
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 19, 1989No. 88-2500PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.
Appellant Harry Weltman appeals from a judgment entered after a bench trial rejecting his claim to a limited partner’s share of the proceeds received by a former American Basketball Association (ABA) team pursuant to a 1976 merger agreement between the ABA and the National Basketball Association (NBA). We reverse and remand to the district court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1973, appellee attorney Donald Schu-pak asked Weltman to locate a sports franchise for Schupak and two of his clients, appellees Ozzie and Daniel Silna,…
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