Laurendeau v. Kewaunee Scientific Equipment Corp.

The corporate defendant (Kewaunee) makes and sells institutional and laboratory furniture for use by academic institutions and hospitals. In 1964, Laurendeau, a carpenter, without any firm assurance of the extent of available installation work,. caused Yankee Installations, Inc. (Yankee), to be formed. Thereafter, Yankee did most of Kewaunee’s school installation work in New England (except Vermont and Connecticut) up to 1979, but remained free to do work for others. For many years prior to 1979, installation subcontractors, including Yankee, did this work for the installation cost set up by…