Levine v. Goldberg

This is an action for an accounting. The litigants are lawyers who jointly entered into a lease for office space with the owner of the building. Plaintiff testified, in substantiation of his amended complaint, which alleged that the parties entered into “ an oral joint venture agreement ”, that the arrangement included sharing the expense of a stenographer, the maintenance of a library, the cost of legal publications, such as the New YorJc Law Journal, and other expenses incidental to the operation of a law office. Defendant denied any agreement for a joint venture and denied any arrangement…