DAVID PONTON, INDIVIDUALLY, AND CONSOLIDATED SHEET METAL, A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLANTS,
v.
JAMES T. BRADLEY, INDIVIDUALLY, AND BRADLEY AIR CONDITIONING AND SHEET METAL, INC., A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLEES

Fla. 3d DCA | 1991-05-07
No. 90-1573
Before FERGUSON, JORGENSON and GERSTEN, JJ.
588 So. 2d 593 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1991) Positive Treatment
Cited by 3 cases
Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Appellants in this dissolution of partnership action appeal from the trial court’s denial of a formal accounting after the court made an explicit finding that the parties had formed a partnership. Section 620.665(4), Florida Statutes (1989), provides that a “partner shall have the right to a formal account of partnership affairs at any ... reasonable time.” [Emphasis supplied]. The single question remaining is whether the court, in the exercise of its discretion, may deny a partner an accounting on grounds that the partnership was of a short duration and was financially uncomplicated. We conclude that it may not in light of the plain language of the statute. See also 8 Fla.Jur.2d Business Relationships § 588 (1978).

Reversed and remanded.

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