Legal Opinion
Robert Hutchens v. Eli Roberts Oil Company and American Petrofina Marketing, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided February 29, 1988No. 86-3846PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Robert Hutchens appeals from the district court’s judgment for the defendants in his action under the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (PMPA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 2801-2841. We affirm in part and reverse in part.
I
In 1973 defendant American Petrofina Marketing, Inc. (now Fina Oil & Chemical Co., hereafter Fina) bought a service station located at 2910 Mahan Drive in Tallahassee, Florida. Fina frequently leases its stations to petroleum jobbers or distributors who in turn lease to retailers, and later in 1973 it entered into a distributor sales contract with defendant…
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- Brown v. American Petrofina Marketing, Inc.District Court, M.D. Florida · 1983
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