The fоllоwing cаse will be used tо аnswer the lаst few questions of this exam. Please read this case and answer the questions below. Meinhard v. Salmon Court of Appeals of New York 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (1928) Background and Facts. Walter Salmon negotiated a twenty-year lease for the Hotel Bristol in New York City. To pay for the conversion of the building into shops and offices, Salmon entered into an agreement with Morton Meinhard to assume half of the cost. They agreed to share the profits and losses. Salmon was to have the sole power to manage the building, however. Less than four months before the end of the lease term, the building’s owner, Elbridge Gerry, approached Salmon about a project to raze the converted structure, clear five adjacent lots, and construct a single building across the whole property. Salmon agreed and signed a new lease in the name of his own business, Midpoint Realty Company, without telling Meinhard. When Meinhard learned of the deal, he filed a suit in New York state court against Salmon. The court ruled in Meinhard’s favor, and Salmon appealed. In the Language of the Court. ….[C]opartners…owe to another…while the enterprise continues, the duty of the finest loyalty. Many forms of conduct permissible in a work-a-day world for those acting at arm’s length are forbidden to those bound by fiduciary ties. * * * Not honestly alone, but the punctilio (means “strictness in observing details”) of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior. As to this there has developed a tradition that is unbending and inveterate (means “entrenched”). Uncompromising rigidity has been the attitude of courts * * * when petitioned to undermine the rule of undivided loyalty. * * * The trouble about [Salmon’s] conduct is that he excluded his [copartner] from any chance to compete, from any chance to enjoy the opportunity for benefit. * * * The very fact that Salmon was in control with exclusive powers of direction charged him the more obviously with the duty of disclosure, [because] only through disclosure could opportunity be equalized. * * * Authority is, of course, abundant that one partner may not appropriate to his own use a renewal of a lease, though its term is to begin at the expiration of the partnership. The lease at hand with its many chances is not strictly a renewal. Even so, the standard of loyalty for those in trust relations is without the fixed divisions of a graduated scale. * * * A man obtaining [an] * * * opportunity * * * by the position he occupies as a partner is bound by his obligations to his copartners in such dealings not to separate his interest from theirs, but, if he acquires any benefit, to communicate it to them. Certain it is also that there may be no abuse of special opportunities growing out of a special trust as manager or agent. [Emphasis added.] * * * Very likely [Salmon] assumed in all good faith that with the approaching end of the venture he might ignore his copartner and take the extension for himself. He had given to the enterprise time and labor as well as money. He had made it a success. Meinhard, who had given money, but neither time nor labor, had already been richly paid. * * * [But] Salmon had put himself in a position in which thought of self was to be renounced, however hard the abnegation (meaning “self-denial”). He was much more than a copartner. He was a managing copartner. For him and for those like him the rule of undivided loyalty is relentless and supreme. Decision and Remedy. The Court of Appeals of New York held that Salmon had breached his fiduciary duty by failing to inform Meinhard of the business opportunity and secretly taking advantage of it himself. The court granted Meinhard an interested “measured by the value of half of the entire lease.” According to this case, what business form did Meinhard and Salmon create?
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