Maglica v. Maglica (1998) 66 Cal.App.4th 442 arose from a personal relationship between two individuals who had no express contract between them, beyond an agreement by one to pay a salary to the other for services rendered in a business. After their business "boomed" due in part to the plaintiff's ideas, input and "hard work," the relationship fell apart, and the plaintiff sued for the value of the services rendered on a quantum meruit theory. (Id. at p. 447.) Based on the lack of any finding the defendant had agreed to give the plaintiff a share of the business, the appellate court reversed the jury's $ 84 million award because it amounted to giving her "de facto ownership in a business all out of reasonable relation to the value of services rendered." (Id. at pp. 447, 450, 457.)