Court Opinion

ID: 9745714
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 10:14:00.657971+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:04.301558
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Affirmed and Memorandum Opinion and Memorandum Concurring Opinion
filed August 15, 2023.

                                      In The

                        Fourteenth Court of Appeals

                               NO. 14-21-00558-CV

   DANIEL OGBONNA AND KINGSLEY EKWOROMADU, OLIMAX
 GROUP INC., OLIMAX MANUFACTURING, LLC AND ROYALBRAVE
                      INC., Appellants

                                         V.
                        NELIA CRUICKSHANK, Appellee

                    On Appeal from the 281st District Court
                            Harris County, Texas
                      Trial Court Cause No. 2020-64885

                 MEMORANDUM CONCURRING OPINION

      I concur in the result. I do not believe all of the arguments under issue number
one—as set out in the plurality opinion—are waived. However, I do not find the
arguments persuasive.

      Appellants argue that because the partnership used a pre-existing
corporation’s bank account for the partnership, the partnership was “created under a
statute” other than the partnership statutes, and consequently under section
152.051(c) there can be no partnership as a matter of law. See Tex. Bus. Org. Code
§ 152.051(c). I do not see how using a pre-existing bank account amounts to creating
the new business as a corporation—as a matter of law. Appellants should have
submitted the issue to the jury.

      Appellants also argue that the jury was tasked with the wrong measure of
damages, arguing—as a matter of law—that the partnership was dissolved.
However, the evidence established that the other two partners continued to run the
business. So this argument also fails.

      I respectfully concur.

                                         /s/       Tracy Christopher
                                                   Chief Justice

Panel consists of Chief Justice Christopher and Justices Jewell and Bourliot.

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