# Groseth International, Inc. v. Tenneco, Inc.

> South Dakota Supreme Court · September 30, 1987 · 410 N.W.2d 159

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9583206

## Case

- **Full name:** GROSETH INTERNATIONAL, INC., and Clifford Groseth, Plaintiffs and Appellants. v. TENNECO, INC., and J.I. Case Company, Defendants and Appellees; GROSETH INTERNATIONAL, INC., and Clifford Groseth, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO., Defendant and Appellee
- **Court:** South Dakota Supreme Court
- **Decided:** September 30, 1987
- **Citations:** 410 N.W.2d 159; 1987 S.D. LEXIS 357
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Wuest
- **Judges:** Sabers, Morgan, Henderson, Wuest, Fosheim, Ret, Miller
- **Cited by:** 102 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9583206

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that no fiduciary relationship existed between IH and one of its dealers
- holding "just provocation [under § 37-5-3] requires some sort of misconduct or shortcoming on the part of the dealer."

## Opinion text

WUEST, Chief Justice
(dissenting).
I still dissent and would grant the petition for rehearing. However, I have no , objection to the majority clarifying their opinion.
I am hereby authorized to state that FOSHEIM, Retired Justice, joins in this dissent.

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