Cohn v. Checker Motors Corp.

Plaintiff Mac Cohn appeals from the circuit court’s granting of summary judgment in favor of defendants Checker Motors Corp. and Yellow Cab Co. In his two-count complaint for breach of an oral contract and promissory estoppel, Cohn alleges that in 1959, he and Morris Markin, who was acting on behalf of defendants and their corporate predecessors, entered into an oral agreement whereby defendants agreed to give Cohn the exclusive right to purchase all of their retired cabs. Cohn claims that in return he agreed to purchase and resell all of the cabs retired by defendants, and to teach Markin’s…