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GOOLEY v. MOBIL OIL CORP.

No. 88-1064.

851 F.2d 513 (1988)

William R. GOOLEY, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided July 13, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel J. Lyne with whom Barbara A. Wegener and Hanify & King, P.C., Boston, Mass., were on brief for plaintiff, appellant.

Robert M. Gault with whom Andrew N. Nathanson, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., Boston, Mass., and Charles B. Straus, III, New York City, were on brief for defendant, appellee.

Before COFFIN and SELYA, Circuit Judges, and ACOSTA, District Judge.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant William R. Gooley leased a service station in Norwood, Massachusetts from defendant-appellee Mobil Oil Corporation. He operated the facility for some thirteen years. All was sweetness and light until Mobil decided not to renew Gooley's lease/franchise and to sell the premises. Then, happiness vanished; the pleasures that went before faded fast from memory. Cf. S.T. Coleridge, The Friend (1828) (happiness "is...

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