Armor v. Lantz

How courts have described this case

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• discussing fact that “‘control. required for imputing negligence under a joint enterprise theory is not actual physical control, but the legal right to control the conduct of the other with respect to the prosecution of the common purpose’ ”
• plaintiff in legal malpractice claim must prove, inter alia, that he employed the defendant lawyer to represent him
• “Members of a joint venture are ... jointly and severally liable for all obligations pertaining to the venture, and the actions of the joint venture bind the individual co-venturers.”
• “The purpose of a joint venture claim is to assert joint and several liability amongst multiple defendants who formed an association to ‘carry out a single business enterprise for profit, for which purpose they combine[d] their property, money, effects, skill and knowledge.”
• defining “joint venture” under West Virginia law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).