BELLEVILLE TOYOTA, INC. v. TOYOTA MOTOR SALES, U.S.A., INC.

No. 5-98-0016.

738 N.E.2d 938 (2000)

316 Ill.App.3d 227

250 Ill.Dec. 469

BELLEVILLE TOYOTA, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. TOYOTA MOTOR SALES, U.S.A., INC., and Toyota Motor Distributors, Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

August 30, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Crisham, Quinlan & Crisham, Ltd., Chicago, for Appellants.

Thomas Q. Keefe, Thomas Q. Keefe, P.C., Belleville, Richard A. Mueller, Bruce D. Ryder, Edwin G. Harvey, Dudley W. Von Holt, Thompson Coburn, St. Louis, MO, for Appellee.


Justice CHAPMAN delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves a claim by a Toyota dealership against the defendants, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., the authorized importer of new Toyota vehicles into the United States, and Toyota Motor Distributors, the wholesale distributor of those vehicles (collectively, defendants). Since 1973, the plaintiff, Belleville Toyota, Inc., doing business as Bill Newbold Toyota (plaintiff), has been selling Toyotas in Belleville...

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