Day Enterprises, Inc. v. Crown Central Petroleum Corp.

THOMSEN, Senior District Judge.

Defendant Crown Central Petroleum Corporation (“Crown”), a Maryland corporation, markets gasoline at the retail level in Maryland through more than forty branded retail service stations which are owned by Crown and leased to and operated by retail dealers. Plaintiff Day Enterprises, Inc. (“Day Enterprises”), a Maryland corpora tion, occupied and operated a Crown retail gasoline service station as an independent lessee-dealer under a series of one-year franchise agreements beginning in 1973. On May 28, 1980, Crown notified Day Enterprises that it was terminating…