Chalmette Petroleum Corp. v. Chalmette Oil Distributing Co.

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The appeal is from a decree specifically enforcing an option to buy an oil and gasolene distributing plant in New Orleans, which option was contained in a lease of the plant made in 1939 by appellant to appellee. The sole error specified is that on the evidence the decree should have been otherwise.

The petition, filed in a State court and removed to the district court, sets forth a series of three leases of the distributing plant, the first in 1934, the second a renewal in 1936, and the third in 1939 on a larger rental. Each of them contained an option to the lessee to1…