Sports World, Inc. v. Neil's Sporting Goods, Inc.

Plaintiff, Sports World, Inc., appeals from the Houston County Circuit Court's order denying a preliminary injunction to prevent Neil's Sporting Goods, Inc., from operating a full-line sporting goods store in the Northside Mall in Dothan, Alabama. We affirm.

In 1973, Charles Heath, vice-president of Sports World, Inc., contacted Julian Turner, president of Northside Realty, Inc., the corporation that owned the Northside Mall, in an attempt to lease space in the mall to operate its sporting goods store. During the negotiations, Heath and Turner entered into an oral agreement whereby Northside…