Abernathy v. Knych

I would affirm the trial court’s grant of a directed verdict to appellees on the issue of whether or not their contract with a third party for the operation of a truck-stop-type cafeteria was terminated “for cause” three years into their ten-year agreement to pay appellants a percentage of the cafeteria’s annual profits. Despite the voluminous testimony and evidence regarding the many problems that appellees had with operating the cafeteria to the satisfaction of third-party Schneider National Carriers, it was uncontroverted that prior to termination of the appellees’ contract, Schneider had…