Rivers Body Factory, Inc. v. Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co.

CARROLL, DONALD K., Chief Judge.

Three of the counter-defendants in an accounting suit have filed an appeal, and a fourth has filed a cross-appeal, from an adverse final decree entered by the Circuit Court for Duval County.

For the sake of brevity and clarity in our discussion of the facts in this complicated case, we shall refer to the appellants generally as Rivers, the cross-appellant as Donald, and the corporate appellee as Luf-kin.

The basic facts pertinent to the present consideration are: In 1956 Lufkin, a manufacturer of commercial trailers and parts, entered into a franchise agreement…