Wright v. Delta Properties, Inc.

This is an action for an accounting and for the establishment of a trust in real property based on a joint venture allegedly having existed between plaintiff W. Q. Wright and Theodore Y. Halsey, the predecessor of defendants. The trial court found against the existence of a joint venture and plaintiff appeals.

In the early nineteen twenties appellant, W. Q. Wright, a civil engineer, organized the Wright Corporation for the exploitation of certain tracts of delta land which had belonged to his father. Appellant was at all times president and general manager and, after he had taken over on…