Mobil Oil Corp. v. Cambridge License Commission

This is an action for certiorari under G.L.c. 249, §4. Mobil applied to the Commission for an amendment to its gasoline storage license for its gasoline station at 2615 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, at the corner of Alewife Brook Parkway. The requested amendment would permit Mobil to convert one of its dispensing islands to self-service. The station has four dispensing islands, and Mobil’s existing license authorized it to operate two of the four islands as self-service islands. The Commission denied Mobil’s application.

The standard of review in this certiorari action is whether the…