Copelan v. Acree Oil Co.

Weltner, Justice.

The principal issue here is whether an agreement calling for the operation of a gasoline filling station by the owner of property and the purchase of petroleum products exclusively from a supplier is a covenant running with the land, and binding upon subsequent owners of the land.

Mrs. Aeree, owner of a lot in Toccoa, Georgia, entered into a “lease” agreement in 1968 with Aeree Oil Co., a wholesale distributor of petroleum products, providing that: (1) Aeree Oil Co. (“lessee”) would make certain improvements on the property valued at $5,000 which would remain the personal…