Standard Oil Co. v. Dolgin
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action op Replevin to recover a gasoline storage tank. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the December Term, 1920, Caledonia County, Chase, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
The plaintiff is seeking to establish its title to a certain gasoline storage tank, which the defendant claims to ■own under a deed hereinafter referred to.
[1, 2] It appeared at the trial below that the plaintiff leased this tank to the firm of Healy & Allen, who operated a public garage at St. Johnsbury. The lease was in writing, and provided that the lessees should have the tank at a nominal rent to use in handling the plaintiff’s petroleum products; that the title should remain in the plaintiff, and that in specified circumstances the plaintiff could enter and remove it. After this lease…
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