Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1909 — BIG LEGAL BATTLE IN PROSPECT [ARTICLE]

BIG LEGAL BATTLE IN PROSPECT

The manufacturers of the “E-M-F ’ automobile, who had contracted automobile, who had contracted with the Studebaker company of South Bend to handle their entire outpjit, have given notice that this agreement is at an end, and that they will sell cars direct to agents from their Detroit factory. The reasons given are that the Studebakers have failed to live up to the contract by not taking and paying for the cars turned out during October and November, and discrimination by the Studebakers in favor of their own make of cars, low commissions allowed agents on the “E-M-F” and forcing agents to buy a few Studebaker machines, before they would give them the agency for the more popular “E-M-F.” The Studebakers, on the other hand, state that they have complied with the terms of their contract with the “E-M-F” people and propose tp- hold the latter to the strict letter of the contract, even to enforcing its provisions in the courts, and that they alone will handle the output of the latter factory. The prospects for sorfe good fat picking for the lawyers is very flattering, but it is scarcely likely the general auto-buying public will be benefited to any extent by the legal battle, which is likely to ensue.