Klenke v. Cleek

In these consolidated actions arising out of a partnership dissolution, plaintiff appeals from both judgments.1 We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Plaintiff and Cleek were business partners for many years before Cleek’s death in 1988. Their business and personal affairs throughout that time were commingled and were carried on the partnership books and records in what can best be described as an undifferentiated maze. Cleek was what amounted to the managing partner, but there was no evidence that the accounting practices or anything else in the relationship was used in bad faith or to cause…