The owners of an iconic downtown Petersburg restaurant continue to fight off a lawsuit from its former owners over a breach of the sale contract, saying now that the business they bought never belonged to the former owners.
Responding to a Richmond judge’s actions on what can proceed in the lawsuit, owners Savannah and Dylan Yeargin maintain that the lease that Charlie and Frannie Rawlings signed with the building that houses the Dixie Restaurant referred to the business as the “Dixie Diner” instead of “Dixie Restaurant.” The restaurant, which has been a Petersburg staple for a century, was closed, then reopened by different owners under the Dixie Diner flag.
The Rawlingses, who bought the Dixie a decade and a half ago from those owners, never used that term in operating or marketing the restaurant, their lawyer tells The Progress-Index…