no. b-000119-c melinda matthews, individually ) in the district court ...

184
1 Q Would you describe ADQ's relationship with the
2 Texas operators as trusting or not trusting from what
3 you have seen in the documents and been told?
4 A The documents pretty much say it is not
5 trusting.
6 Q Now, a Dairy Queen franchisee must obtain
7 prior written consent from ADQ to assign any interest in
8 the franchise agreement; is that right?
9 A That's my understanding.
10 Q And that's true for all franchises - at least
11 for the Strickland franchise?
12 A Yeah, yeah.
13 Q So, ADQ has to approve the transfer of the
14 Strickland Dairy Queen franchise?
15 A And the people involved in it.
16 Q Yes. Thank you.
17 Facility improvements and upgrading are
18 required as a condition of ADQ's final approval of a
19 transfer of that Strickland Dairy Queen franchise,
20 right?
21 MR. LIGHTY: Objection. Form.
22 A It would depend on the wording of that
23 transfer. In most franchise companies, the more mature
24 they get, the more specific that gets. In some
25 franchises it just simply says that you have to do