Legal Opinion
Quality Mercury, Inc. v. Ford Motor Company
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 27, 1976No. 75-1489, 75-1602PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LAY, Circuit Judge.
Quality Mercury, Inc. appeals from the district court’s grant of judgment on the pleadings in favor of the defendants pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(c).
The pleaded facts may be summarized as follows. Quality is an automobile dealer in Bloomington, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. It sells Mercury automobiles, which are manufactured by defendant Ford Motor Co. and marketed by the Lincoln-Mercury division of defendant Ford Marketing Corp. Under an agreement with Quality, Lincoln-Mercury may franchise another Mercury dealer only if the other dealer’s place of business is more…
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