Hoss v. Alardin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that exercise of control over some subordinate employees was no evidence of right of control over business operations
• holding that evidence was legally insufficient to support partnership finding when there was no evidence of four out of five TRPA factors and only weak evidence on the fifth factor
• holding that there was no evidence of expression of intent when one party identified the other as a “partner” to customers but there was no evidence as to why that showed an expectation that the term carried legal significance
• rejecting conclusory lay witness testimony as to whether the parties’ agreed to be partners
• “ Evidence that business expenses were paid by a credit card, in and of itself, is not evidence that money or property was contributed as capital to the business.”
• “Moreover, ‘there must be evidence that both parties expressed their intent to be partners.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).