Quinlivan v. Brown Oil Co.

The defendant, Brown Oil Company, a corporation, was engaged in the business of wholesale and retail handling and selling of gasoline and lubricating oils at Billings, Montana, where, as owner or lessee, it controlled a number of service stations. The defendant C. H. Brown, as president and manager, had direct charge of the business.

In the spring of 1931, the above-named company leased one of its service stations in Billings to Harold Sayer. The lease provided that the lessor Brown Oil Company should sell the gasoline that passed through the station to the lessee Sayer at a price equal to one…