GULF OIL CORP. v. SPRIGGS ENTERPRISES, INC.

78-863, 78-864.

388 So.2d 518 (1980)

GULF OIL CORPORATION, a corp. v. SPRIGGS ENTERPRISES, INC., a corp. DIAMONDHEAD CORPORATION et al. v. SPRIGGS ENTERPRISES, INC., an Alabama corp.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

September 19, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wesley Pipes of Lyons, Pipes & Cook, Mobile, Douglas Arant and Samuel H. Franklin of Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, Birmingham, and Taylor D. Wilkins of Wilkins & Bankester, Bay Minette, for appellant Gulf Oil Corp.

Broox G. Holmes and James J. Ward, Jr., of Armbrecht, Jackson, DeMouy, Crowe, Holmes & Reeves, Mobile, Norborne C. Stone, Jr. of Stone & Partin, Bay Minette, for appellants Diamondhead Corp. and Lake Forest, Inc.

E. E. Ball of Owen & Ball, Bay Minette, for appellees.


PER CURIAM.

On June 21, 1972, Lake Forest, Inc., a real estate developer which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Diamondhead Corporation, sold some real property along U.S. Highway 98 just off I-10 in Baldwin County to Dixon Shell Service Station, Inc. (That corporation later became Spriggs Enterprises, Inc.) During the negotiations prior to the sale, Spriggs and Dixon, the initial partners in this enterprise, obtained a commitment in a personal letter

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