The motion court erred in characterizing the relationship between the parties as a "de facto" partnership based upon the parties holding themselves out as partners. How the parties appeared to others is of little relevance to their liabilities inter se. The relationship should more properly have been held to be a joint venture (see Ackerman v Landes,
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