AUTO. RETAILERS v. EVANS CIG. SERV.

[No. 235, September Term, 1972.]

269 Md. 101 (1973)

304 A.2d 581

AUTOMATIC RETAILERS OF AMERICA, INC. v. EVANS CIGARETTE SERVICE COMPANY

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed June 8, 1973.

Denied June 21, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald N. Rothman and S. Booker Carter, Jr., with whom were Edward E. Obstler and Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander on the brief, for appellant.

Joseph S. Kaufman, with whom was H. David Gann on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and BARNES, SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES and LEVINE, JJ.


DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

We are here concerned with a contract which appears innocent on its face but its effect is made complicated by a series of corporate mergers and transactions. This apparently simple agreement is the basis of this equity action brought in the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City where Judge Meyer M. Cardin awarded the plaintiff damages for its breach. In order to understand the dispute, its rather complex fact pattern...

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