Mayflower Seafoods, Inc. v. Integrity Credit Corp.

Mayflower Seafoods, Inc. (Mayflower), conducts a restaurant and seafood business in Plymouth. Energy *454Control Systems, Inc. (the vendor1), was engaged in selling devices and systems of energy control. Integrity Credit Corporation (the corporate lessor) was formerly known as Tri-Con-tinental Leasing Corporation. The trial judge found that the corporate lessor is a “finance lessor, whose service is to provide funds to persons or entities” to enable them to lease equipment. In the spring of 1983, Robert Harrison, a salesman employed by the vendor but allowed by the vendor also to work for others,…