Ely v. General Motors Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a manufacturer had not breached a fiduciary duty to the public by advertising that its automobile could exceed the speed limit
• holding that a manufacturer had not breached a fiduciary duty to the public by advertising that its automobile could exceed the speed limit
• holding wholesaler and retailer do not share community of pecuniary interest
• finding no pecuniary interest in a common purpose under a franchise agreement where one party was selling vehicles at wholesale and the other at retail, even though parties shared general business interest in marketing new cars
• stating that court could find “no cases where a . . . wholesaler/retailer relationship has been determined to create [a] common pecuniary benefit” and holding that “[w]hen one party is selling vehicles wholesale to another to sell retail, there is not a pecuniary interest in a common purpose”
• wherein a wholesaler sells to a retailer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).