Questions from Business Law

Q: Wesley Hall, an independent contractor managing property for Acree Investments,

Wesley Hall, an independent contractor managing property for Acree Investments, Ltd., lost control of a fire he had set to clear ten acres of Acree land. The runaway fire burned seventy-eight acres of...

Q: Primesouth Bank issued a loan to Okefenokee Aircraft, Inc. (

Primesouth Bank issued a loan to Okefenokee Aircraft, Inc. (OAI), to buy a plane. OAI executed a note in favor of Primesouth in the amount of $161,306.25 plus interest. The plane secured the note. Whe...

Q: Robert Helmer and Percy Helmer, Jr., were authorized signatories on

Robert Helmer and Percy Helmer, Jr., were authorized signatories on the corporate checking account of Event Marketing, Inc. The Helmers signed a check drawn on Event Marketing’s account and issued to...

Q: William and Maxine Miller were shareholders of Claimsco International, Inc.

William and Maxine Miller were shareholders of Claimsco International, Inc. They filed a suit against the other shareholders, Michael Harris and Kenneth Hoxie, and the accountant who worked for all of...

Q: 73-75 Main Avenue, LLC, agreed to lease a

73-75 Main Avenue, LLC, agreed to lease a portion of the commercial property at 73 Main Avenue, Norwalk, Connecticut, to PP Door Enterprise, Inc. Nan Zhang, as manager of PP Door, signed the lease agr...

Q: Standard Oil of Connecticut, Inc., sells home heating, cooling

Standard Oil of Connecticut, Inc., sells home heating, cooling, and security systems. Standard schedules installation and service appointments with its customers and then contracts with installers and...

Q: Western Fire Truck, Inc., contracted with Emergency One, Inc

Western Fire Truck, Inc., contracted with Emergency One, Inc. (EO), to be its exclusive dealer in Colorado and Wyoming through December 2003. James Costello, a Western salesperson, was authorized to o...

Q: Assume that you want to read the entire court opinion in the

Assume that you want to read the entire court opinion in the case of Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Auto zone, Inc., 809 F.3d 916 (7th Cir. 2016). Refer to the subsection entitled “Finding...

Q: L.V.R.V., Inc., sells recreational

L.V.R.V., Inc., sells recreational vehicles (RVs) in Las Vegas, Nevada, as Wheeler’s Las Vegas RV. In September 1997, Wheeler’s sold a Santara RV made by Coachmen Recreational Vehicle Co. to Arthur an...

Q: The Northeast Independent School District in Bexar County, Texas, hired

The Northeast Independent School District in Bexar County, Texas, hired STR Constructors, Ltd., to renovate a middle school. STR subcontracted the tile work in the school’s kitchen to Newman Tile, Inc...