George Realty Co. v. Gulf Refining Co.

Plaintiff, George Realty Company, a Michigan corporation, filed this bill in equity to recover rent claimed to be due it from defendant Gulf Refining Company, a Delaware corporation, under a certain lease of a gasoline station in the city of Detroit. Plaintiff had previously sued to recover on the same claim in an action at law in assumpsit, on the theory that defendant Gulf was liable contractually under the lease as a result of a novation, whereby it (defendant Gulf) was substituted as lessee in place of defendant Paragon Refining Company of Michigan, plaintiff’s original lessee’s assignee.…