Redinger v. Standard Oil Company

Plaintiff Redinger brought an action for breach of an oral lease contract against defendant Standard Oil Company. For a number of years Redinger was under a written yearly lease with the Standard Oil Company to operate a gasoline station at the intersection of M-37 and M-82 on the north side of Newaygo. The defendant owned another more profitable gasoline station down the hill from the one Redinger was operating and closer to the downtown area of Newaygo.

Redinger testified he heard that Decker, the operator of the more desirable station down the hill, intended to terminate his lease with…