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CLARK v. GULF OIL CORPORATION

No. 7870.

273 F.2d 195 (1959)

Harry E. CLARK and Ellen C. Clark, his wife; Richard Clark and June S. Clark, his wife; and Harry E. Clark, Administrator of the Estate of Lynne S. Clark, Appellants, v. GULF OIL CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 24, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Emory and David C. Green, Baltimore, Md. (Venable, Baetjer & Howard, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellants.

Melvin J. Sykes and Morton J. Hollander, Baltimore, Md., for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.

BOREMAN, Circuit Judge.

All the questions presented here were passed upon by the District Court and we approve and adopt its decision as reported in Gulf Oil Corp. v. Clark, D.C. D.Md.1959, 169 F.Supp. 717.

It is emphasized that the rider agreement dated June 30, 1943, was construed by the District Court to be an alternative continuing offer unsupported by consideration, and thus revocable by lessors at any time prior...

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