Legal Opinion
Merit Oil Co. v. Director of the Division on the Necessaries of Life
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 6, 1946PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
The plaintiff alleges in its bill of complaint that it is a retail dealer in gasoline, operating seventeen filling stations within the Commonwealth and associated with what is commonly known as the independent branch of the retail gasoline industry, as .distinguished from gasoline dealers distributing the products of nationally organized companies and selling products that have been advertised throughout the country; that it customarily sells a single grade of gasoline at one price and under one name, although under war conditions it has sold two grades of gasoline; that in order to compete…
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