Legal Opinion
Leif M. Hanson v. Ford Motor Company, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 17, 1960No. 16236PublishedCited by 146 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BLACKMUN, Circuit Judge.
Leif M. Hanson, then of Enderlin, North Dakota, in April or May, 1954, accepted from Ford Motor Company, a Delaware corporation, an exclusive Lincoln-Mercury agency .at Albert Lea, a county seat community with a population of about 13,500 in southern Minnesota. His territory embraced Freeborn County of that State and the east half of Faribault County adjoining to the west. Hanson started business in June 1954 and had his “grand opening” in July of that year. Sixteen months later, in November, 1955, he was adjudged bankrupt on an involuntary petition.
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