BURTON v. HITACHI AMERICA, LTD.

No. 74-1125.

504 F.2d 721 (1974)

Robert BURTON and Curtis B. Clark, Co-Partners, d/b/a Insco, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. HITACHI AMERICA, LTD., a New York Corporation, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Dickey Hamilton, Stephen J. Bisgeier, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellant.

David P. List, Merle L. Royce, II, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge, and PELL and TONE, Circuit Judges.


HASTINGS, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Burton and Clark had an oral agreement, implemented by letters, with defendant Hitachi to sell Hitachi Japanese electric motors in an exclusive sales territory in Illinois. After an original complaint had been filed, together with a third party action, two counterclaims and an interminable amount of legal skirmishing, this matter was finally submitted for trial by jury some three years later on an amended complaint in three...

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