North American Pump Corp. v. Clay Equipment Corp.

STRUTZ, Chief Justice.

This action was brought for damages claimed due for breach of contract. The plaintiff, a sales and service corporation engaged in selling farm implements and industrial equipment, asserts that it had an oral contract with the defendant, a manufacturer of such equipment, which contract, the plaintiff alleges, gave to it the exclusive right to sell defendant’s products within a specified territory which was, roughly, the northern half of North Dakota and a small area in northwestern Minnesota. The plaintiff’s offices are located in the city of Grand Forks, and George…