Cities Service Oil Co. v. Waldron

To secure outlet for its products, plaintiff, on February 21, 1930, entered into a lease with defendant Walter W. Waldron covering a certain lot 288 in Flint, reciting that it was then owned and operated as a gasoline filling station, the rental being one-half cent per gallon on all gasoline sold, payable monthly. Whether the lease was for one year or two years is questioned, although the writing recites a term of two years. The filling station was not oh lot 288; it was on lot 290, which was the separate property of Cofa E. Waldron, wife of Walter.- It seems there was some collateral…