Talton v. Mac Tools, Inc.

WALKER, Judge.

Defendant Mac Tools is an Ohio Corporation which manufactures and markets tools through its distributors. Its District Sales Manager in Wake County, defendant Alan Calvert, sold a distributorship to plaintiff in July 1988. Distributors enter into Distributor Agreements with Mac Tools which require them to purchase or lease a Mac van, fill it with tools purchased from Mac, and resell the tools to customers within a given territory.

Plaintiff’s earnings from the distributorship were not what he expected and thus in approximately August of 1990, after two years of operation,…