Pittard MacHinery Company v. Mitsubishi International Corporation

Benham, Judge.

Claiming it was entitled to commissions on eight sales of appel-lee’s products, appellant filed suit against appellee. After conducting a hearing, the trial court concluded that appellant was not the procuring cause of any of the sales at issue and granted summary judgment to appellee. This appeal followed.

In 1982 or 1983, appellant, a retailer of machine tools, was the only dealer in Georgia and Alabama permitted to purchase appellee’s electrical discharge machines (EDMs) to resell to others in Georgia and Alabama. In May 1986, appellee informed appellant that its exclusive…