Jomicra, Inc. v. California Mobile Home Dealers Ass'n

Henry and Myron Reichert, partners, are the lessees of an exclusive 189-space mobile home park located in Anaheim, California, called Ponderosa Mobile Home Estates (Ponderosa). On October 1, 1968, before construction of the park was completed, the Reicherts entered into a written agreement with Fred M. Hampton which gave Hampton the exclusive right to maintain a mobile home sales business on the park property. The agreement also gave Hampton the exclusive right to sell mobile homes to the prospective residents of the park for a period of seven months (subject to extensions). It further provided: “Nothing shall prohibit Reichert permitting prospective residents who own approved mobile homes to become residents of the park.” In consideration for the exclusive right to sell mobile homes to the prospective and future tenants of Ponderosa, and the right to occupy the sales lot, Hampton agreed to pay the Reicherts 50 percent of the profits from the sale of homes to Ponderosa residents. Hampton assigned his interest in the contract to Jomicra, Inc., a corporation, doing business as Ponderosa Mobile Home Sales (Jomicra), and the Reicherts accepted Jomicra as Hampton’s…