Challenge MacHinery Co. v. Mattison MacHine Works

Plaintiff, The Challenge Machinery Company, appeals by leave granted from the December 30, 1982, order which granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment and dismissed counts I-IV of Challenge’s complaint. Defendant Mattison Machine Works cross-appeals from that portion of the order which denied its motion for summary judgment on count V of the complaint.

Challenge is a manufacturer of precision parts. Mattison manufactures the large machines which in turn make the precision parts. Defendant J. Lee Hackett Company occasionally acts as Mattison’s sales representative. In October of 1978,…