NICKERSON v. MATCO TOOLS CORP.

No. 86-1622.

813 F.2d 529 (1987)

Lawrence NICKERSON, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. MATCO TOOLS CORPORATION, a DIVISION OF the JACOBS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander Whiteside, with whom Allan R. Rosenberg, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

Michael R. Coppock, with whom Rubin and Rudman, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendant, appellee.

Before BOWNES, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, and GIGNOUX, Senior District Judge.


BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Nickerson, Miller, Cilley, and Worrall were self-employed truck-traveling sellers of mechanics' tools, broadly classified as hard line and soft line. Three plaintiffs previously had distributorship contracts with a supplier, Mac Tool Company, which furnished the hard line. An associated company, defendant Mac Allied, supplied the soft line. Both companies were slow, causing plaintiffs serious back-order problems. The...

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