Legal Opinion
Mobil Oil Corp. v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 15, 1972PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraucher, J.
In this bill in equity filed in the county court, the plaintiffs seek a declaration that G. L. c. 271, § 6C, inserted by St. 1968, c. 602, entitled, “An Act prohibiting the giving of chances or the offering of prizes by gasoline stations” is unconstitutional as applied to them. The matter was reserved and reported, without decision, to this court by the single justice. We have before us the pleadings and a statement of agreed facts including a substantial number of lengthy exhibits.
The plaintiffs are Mobil Oil Corporation (Mobil), a New York corporation doing business in Massachusetts as both…
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