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App. 786), the facts of the case concern action on a lease contract. In a petition, it was alleged that the defendant "willfully and maliciously" deprived the plaintiff of his
place of business (Pure Oil v. Dukes). It appears that a lease existed between C.L. Dukes and the Pure Oil Company, in which Dukes ran a gas station, selling the
petroleum products produced by Pure Oil. However, Dukes asserts that the company arbitrarily order the gas station closed, demanded the keys, and ordered Dukes to vacate the premises.
Pure Oil refused to allow Dukes or his employees to "service cars, and refused to let him make any sales and informed petitioners customers
who called for service that the business was closed" while simultaneously refusing to offer "any compensation whatever to petitioner" (Pure Oil v. Dukes). On the specified date, the defendants agents
came to the gas station and took physical possession of the premises. The rights of C.L. Dukes to the gas station and to have the ability to purchase gasoline from
the Pure Oil Company were derived from a lease contract and a sales contract, which Dukes alleged were breached. In other words, Dukes, a gas station operator, conducted a private
business, servicing cars, as well as selling Pure Oils gas. Due to unspecified reasons, the oil company decided to close this station and ordered Dukes to vacate. When Dukes did
not, the oil company, on an indicated date, took physical possession of the premises, including all aspects of Dukes business. Dukes operated the gas station under the auspices of two
contracts, a lease contract for the premises with Pure Oil and also under a purchasing agreement for petroleum products. Dukes felt that he was justified to collect damages but the
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