Earl Evans Chevrolet, Inc. v. General Motors Corp.

Ford, Judge.

In the summer of 1982, appellees Daniel Nester and Earl Evans Chevrolet, Inc. (“Evans”) initiated an action against appellant General Motors Corporation alleging, inter alia, that General Motors (“GM”) violated the Ohio Motor Vehicle Dealer Act, R.C. 4517.01 et seq. By the time the case went to the jury, the scope of the action had been pruned to two specific statutory violations: (1) a charge that GM had failed to act in “good faith” in its dealings with Evans, a violation of R.C. 4517.01(A); and (2) an allegation that GM discriminated against Evans in the allocation of vehicles,…