Bagwell v. Trammel

Thompson, Chief Justice.

Following a bench trial in this action arising out of a joint venture contract between appellant Thomas Bagwell and appellees Bobby and Oretta Trammel (the “Trammels”), the trial court denied Bag-well’s claim for specific performance of the contract but granted his claims for an equitable partition of real property j ointly owned by the parties and dissolution of the joint venture. Bagwell challenges the trial court’s final order on several grounds, and for the reasons that follow, we affirm.

The record shows that in January 2000, Bagwell and the Trammels entered into a…