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Agency - Liability Of Principal For Termination Of Agents Employment, William G. Mateer S.Ed.
Agency - Liability Of Principal For Termination Of Agents Employment, William G. Mateer S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
In the summer of 1949, appellant entered into an oral contract for an indefinite time with the appellee whereby the former was granted an exclusive wholesale distributorship of appellee's farm and garden equipment. A four-year period followed in which appellant increased the number of dealers in appellee's product from four or five in 1949 to over one hundred in 1953. In the latter part of 1952 appellant contemplated an enlargement of its facilities which would require it to enter upon a fifteen-year lease. Since the lessor desired some assurances as to the duration of appellant's franchise, appellant wrote to appellee …