Ford Motor Co. v. Quinn

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 337
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 244

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Sales—Illegal contract — Public policy — Restraint on resale.</p> <p>A contract between a corporation manufacturing automobiles and a retail dealer, whereby the corporation, in connection with absolute sales of its products, attempts to control the resale price of all sales by the dealer, is a restraint of trade, invalid both at common law, and so far as it affects interstate commerce under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of July 2, 1890. Thus a purchaser from a dealer at a price less than the list price fixed in the contract between the manufacturing company and the dealer, may maintain title against the company although he has received no bill of sale from the company, as provided by such contract, and the contract stipulates that the company shall retain title until such bill of sale has been given.</p>