Red Wing Shoe Co. v. Shepherd Safety Shoe Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
SPARKS, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from a judgment declaring a contract void for indefiniteness and uncertainty. The principal questions raised are whether a contract for an exclusive agency, if valid, obligates a manufacturer to continue to manufacture all the types of goods it made at the time the contract was entered into, and, if not valid, whether the agent designated by it is entitled to recover for alleged breaches in the manufacturer’s performance during the period when the parties purported to operate under it.
*416The contract in controversy was entered into in December, 1933, between…
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- United States v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
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- Woerheide v. Barber Asphalt Paving Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1918
- Butterick Publishing Co. v. WhitcombIllinois Supreme Court · 1907
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