Southwest Drayage Co. v. Crawford Moving Vans, Inc.

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

In this court-tried case, plaintiff was successful in establishing that a joint adventure (based upon an alleged contract therefor) existed between the parties for moving the Federal Records Center from 1724 Locust Street to its new location at 111 West Winnebago Avenue, in St. Louis, Missouri. The decree declaring that the joint adventure did exist also ordered that an accounting be had of the profits derived by defendants in the enterprise (defendants, with another company, had bid upon a part of the moving job and completed it to the exclusion of plaintiff). From…