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Corporate Offices
24 Hickory Smoke Drive
East Bumble, Alabama 30699
TO: THE LAW FIRM
FM: Ronald T. Dumpp, Chief Executive
SUBJ: Legal Advice
Dear Lawyer,
After a few recent events surrounding our purchase and use of "Evershine Flooring" by FloorCo, Inc., I felt it best that I write to you and ask for your formal legal opinion about this matter. I'll try and give you all the facts as best I can in this letter because I'm going to Barbados for three weeks and I will be unavailable during that time.
About eight months ago, we were approached by a representative from FloorCo Inc. regarding a rather remarkable new product that they had created. The representative told us that FloorCo had created a new process whereby they could fabricate a commercial hardwood flooring that retained a durable glossy shine "virtually forever." They called this new flooring "Evershine." As you know, all of our barbecue restaurants have hardwood floors. The hardwood floors provide us with a "country" atmosphere that our customers expect when they walk into a Pig-Out restaurant. We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last eight years just maintaining the floors in our restaurants nationwide. We thought that this might be a wonderful opportunity to enhance the appearance of our restaurants while at the same time cut down on our huge maintenance costs. We agreed to discuss it at a board meeting and contact FloorCo at a later date.
A month after we initially met, I was playing golf at the Lonesome Pines golf course with a couple of friends and a person asked if they could join our group to make us a foursome. We said "yes" and, as it turns out, the person who joined our group was Robert Goodman who is the chief executive officer of FloorCo Inc. We rode in the same golf cart and struck up a conversation about the "Evershine" product line. He was a terrible golfer, but