Wolf v. Perry

LUJAN, Chief Justice.

This is a tort action for inducing a breach of contract.

In the fall of 1955, plaintiff-appellee, Ralph Wolf, was in the business of distributing the petroleum products of Union Oil Company. At that time, one Max Konz, the owner of certain real property in Moriarty, New Mexico, on which gasoline pumps and other equipment were located, entered into an exclusive gasoline sales contract of five years’ duration with the plaintiff. The contract provided that the plaintiff had the right to cancel the contract on ten-day notice. It further provided that should ivonz dispose of…