51 Cal.App.4th 1659 (Cal. Ct. App. 1997) Cited 44 times
Affirming summary judgment against claim of joint venture liability, observing language of written agreement making defendant "agent for 'all operating functions' " was "extremely broad" and, "[i]n the absence of any further information," would cause one "plausibly [to] infer that the joint venture . . . actually ran" operations, but concluding agreement was insufficient to create triable issue because there was "not a shred of evidence that any entity other than [co-defendant] had any control" over facility where injury occurred
