Legal Opinion
Irving Investment Corp. v. Gordon
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided December 5, 1949PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Case, J.
The primary question is whether a corporate lessor may lawfully burden a lessee with a covenant in restraint of trade when the covenant is effective against property not involved in the lease and is made for the benefit of another corporation with which the lessor has no privity and in which it has no interest.
Irving Investment Corporation, one of the plaintiffs, owned a property located at the southwest corner of Mulberry Street and Edison Place, known as 147 Mulberry Street, in the City 'of Newark. Defendants, David Gordon and Irving Gordon,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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