Kost v. Kraft

KAPSNER, Justice.

[¶ 1] Allen Kraft appeals from a district court judgment dissolving a partnership and dismissing his counterclaim seeking damages for breach of an oral agreement. We affirm, concluding the district court did not err in refusing to instruct the jury on the equitable theories of unjust enrichment or quantum meruit and did not abuse its discretion in granting a motion in limine precluding evidence or argument of unjust enrichment or quantum meruit.

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[¶ 2] Kraft and Jim Kost operated a custom combining partnership. They ceased doing business as a partnership in early 2003, but…