Mesh v. Citrin

Defendants appeal from judgment of $2,077.94 entered on jury verdict for plaintiff.

Defendants were engaged in the wholesale gasoline business and in leasing and subleasing gasoline stations to which they sold gasoline and other merchandise. Defendants had leased the gasoline station at 2400 Brush street, Detroit, on September 30, 1938, and operated such station until the sale and sublease to plaintiff was concluded on December 30, 1938, as herein explained.

In the early part of December, 1938, plaintiff, a young man without experience in the gasoline station business, began negotiations with…