Legal Opinion
Morgan Distributing Company, Inc. v. Unidynamic Corporation (Formerly Known as Umc Industries, Inc.)
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 5, 1989No. 88-1826PublishedCited by 227 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge.
Morgan Distributing Company appeals from a judgment notwithstanding verdict entered by the district court 1 after Morgan was awarded $300,000.00 by a jury against Unidynamic Corporation for the wrongful termination of a distributorship agreement. We affirm.
Morgan was an exclusive distributor for Unidynamic for approximately thirteen years through a series of one-year contracts, each expiring in April of the respective year. In July, 1980 Morgan received from Unidynamic a distributorship agreement which altered Morgan’s status from an exclusive to a nonexclusive…
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