River Valley Truck Center, Inc. v. Interstate Companies

ANDERSON, RUSSELL A., Justice

(dissenting).

I respectfully dissent. To reach the conclusion that the dealership agreement requires River Valley to represent an OEM that offers Detroit Diesel engines, the majority ignores established principles of contract interpretation by (1) considering the sales and promotion responsibilities in the first paragraph of section 2.2.1 in isolation from the rest of the dealership agreement; (2) treating the failure to satisfy a conditional obligation as a breach; (3) rendering conditional language that specifically addresses a dealer’s representation of an OEM…