Legal Opinion
Holiday Inns, Inc., Cross-Appellant v. C. H. Alberding, Airport Holiday Corporation, Cross-Appellees
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided August 26, 1982No. 81-1539PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
Appellee and cross-appellant Holiday Inns, Inc. supervises a chain of over 1700 hotels. Many of these hotels operate under a franchise agreement by which the owner is entitled to display the familiar “Holiday Inn” sign (referred to as the “Great Sign”) and other distinctive emblems of the chain. In 1956, Holiday Inn signed a license agreement with Tex-Mex Inn Operating Co. (Tex-Mex) that permitted Tex-Mex to operate a 200-room hotel located at 7800 Lemmon Avenue in Dallas, Texas, as a Holiday Inn. The agreement provided for termination of the license, however,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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3Cited by36 opinions
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