CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORP. v. PORT OIL CO.

No. 8424.

301 F.2d 175 (1962)

CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Appellant, v. PORT OIL CO. (Formerly Hewitt Oil Marketing Co.), Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 22, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. McDaniel, Jr., Baltimore, Md. (Cable & McDaniel, Baltimore, Md., Buist & Buist, George L. Buist and Henry B. Smythe, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellant.

G. L. B. Rivers, Charleston, S. C. (Hagood, Rivers & Young, Charleston, S. C., on brief), for appellee.

Before SOPER, BOREMAN and BRYAN, Circuit Judges.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is a contract controversy between Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, a supplier of petroleum products, and Port Oil Company, its South Carolina distributor.

In this relationship Crown from time to time took from Port seventeen leases for filling station sites and immediately executed lease-backs to Port. Port assigned the rent payable by Crown under each lease to...

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