Legal Opinion
William R. Gooley v. Mobil Oil Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 13, 1988No. 14-1617PublishedCited by 753 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff-appellant William R. Gooley leased a service station in Norwood, Massachusetts from defendant-appellee Mobil Oil Corporation. He operated the facility for some thirteen years. All was sweetness and light until Mobil decided not to renew Gooley’s lease/franchise and to sell the premises. Then, happiness vanished; the pleasures that went before faded fast from memory. Cf S.T. Coleridge, The Friend (1828) (happiness “is made up of minute fractions ... little soon forgotten charities”). We set the stage summarily.
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