Shwiff v. Priest

OPINION

This suit was brought as an accounting of an alleged joint venture agreement to purchase real property in San Antonio, Texas, and to build thereon a twelve-unit apartment complex. William G. Priest, Jr. sued Seymour B. Shwiff to recover $42,027.52, representing one-half of the losses resulting from the alleged joint venture. The suit was tried before a jury which found that Priest and Shwiff built the apartment complex as a joint venture, that $34,400.00 represented one-half of the losses sustained by the joint venture, and that Priest was entitled to attorney’s fees. Shwiff has…