Contracts Keyed to Calamari
Lee v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.
Facts
The Plaintiffs, Harold S. Lee (now deceased) and his two sons Eric Lee and Lester Lee (the "Plaintiffs"), were the 50% owners of Capital City Liquor Company, Inc. ("Capital City"), a wholesale liquor distributorship. Capital City sold a large amount of the Defendant, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc's. (the "Defendant") products. In May of 1970, Harold Lee discussed the potential sale of Capital City's assets with an Executive Vice President of the Defendant corporation. Harold Lee had a relationship with the Defendant corporation and its principles for many years. Harold Lee agreed to sell his and his sons 50% interest in Capital City to the Defendant, if the Defendant agreed to relocate Harold Lee and his sons "in a new distributorship of their own in a different city." The agreement to purchase Capital City's assets was consummated on September 30, 1970, but the relocation portion of the agreement was never put into writing. The Plaintiffs sued for damages because although the Defendant had opportunities to do so, it never relocated the Plaintiffs. The district court judge allowed the oral relocation agreement to be admitted under the parol evidence rule.
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