Bates v. Chevron U. S. A., Inc.

Underwood, Judge.

Chevron instituted a dispossessory proceeding in the Superior Court of Fulton County in an effort to gain possession from Bates of a service station in Roswell, Georgia. Bates, who had been Chevron’s lessee and dealer contended that the Federal Petroleum Marketing Practices Act (hereafter "the Federal Act”) 15 USC § 2801 et seq. has preempted the state law under which Chevron was attempting to proceed and that the Fulton County Superior Court had no jurisdiction in the matter. Chevron filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings which, after hearing, was granted and a writ of…