Knoop v. Penn Eaton Motor Oil Co.

The owner of premises leased them to defendant, a distributor of gasoline and petroleum products. The lease’ provided that the premises were “to be used as a filling- station for the sale of gasoline, oil, automobile supplies and accessories and any and all other merchandise handled in that vicinity by filling stations,” that the rental should be 1 cent per gallon for each gallon of gasoline pumped at the station but with a fixed minimum, and that the lessor might terminate the lessee’s tenancy upon the latter’s default in any respect. Defendant, in turn, subleased the station to plaintiff’s…