Davey v. Acklie Group

The question this case presents is whether a party, in this case James A. Davey (“Davey”), can protect his goodwill in a customer relationship with his customer, the Martin Brower Company (“Martin Brower”), in a given geographic area, namely two travel lanes, from one of its vendor transportation carriers, namely Shaffer Trucking (“Shaffer”), who may also have goodwill with the same customer in a different geographic area. This is an action brought on by the plaintiff (“Davey”), owner of Distribution Logistic Services (“DLS”), to redress the alleged loss to the business when the defendants,…