Lack of Proven Partnership Between Baseball Entrepreneurs Undermines Unjust Enrichment Claim

A Tennessee state appeals court has overturned a trial court's denial of a directed verdict in a case in which two baseball entrepreneurs, who sought to start a business concern that would "recruit, train, and coach youth baseball players with aspirations of playing professionally or in college," got sideways about compensation.   In so ruling, the appeals court held that the plaintiff failed to “prove that the benefit conferred on (the defendant) was in excess of the compensation (he had