Park Oil, Inc. v. Getty Refining & Marketing Co.

In this action the Court of Chancery entered a money judgment for Getty Refining and Marketing Company (plaintiff) against Park Oil, Inc. (defendant) in the amount of $492,450.04. * Park Oil has appealed and its argument in support thereof is directed, not to the amount of the judgment, but to the Court’s jurisdiction to enter it.

Briefly, Park Oil contends that the Court of Chancery did not have jurisdiction because Getty’s claim is essentially legal and thus not within the subject matter jurisdiction of an equity court. It is clear, under statutory and settled case law, that the Court of…