Skretvedt v. Kouri

445 S.E.2d 481 (1994)

Orrin T. SKRETVEDT

v.

Michael G. KOURI.

Record No. 930864.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

June 10, 1994.

Orrin T. Skretvedt, pro se.

J.W. Harman, Jr., Tazewell (Harman & Harman, on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

COMPTON, Justice.

This is the saga of a backyard chat between neighbors that mushroomed into an alleged partnership. The arrangement culminated in bitter controversy, during which neither party was able to agree on any material fact about the nature of the relationship or about its financial matters.

In August 1989, appellant Orrin T. Skretvedt, by counsel,…