Chrysler Corporation v. Kolosso Auto Sales, Inc.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

A clause in Chrysler’s franchise contract with one of its dealers, Kolosso Auto Sales, forbids Kolosso to change the location of the dealership from the address in Appleton, Wisconsin specified in the contract unless it gets Chrysler’s written permission. The contract was made in 1988, at a time when the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Dealers Law, Wis. Stat. § 218.01, did not expressly limit an auto manufacturer’s right to include such a provision in a dealership contract. But in 1993 the legislature enacted and made applicable to existing as well as to new contracts an amendment…