Holland v. Brown

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Frazer,

The present appeal is from a decree restraining defendants from violating the provisions of a merger con tract by which they and others bound themselves not to enter into the dairy business in competition with the Valley Dairy Company.

Previous to March, 1925, sixteen dairymen and dealers in dairy products, who comprise plaintiffs or defendants in this proceeding, had conducted their businesses independently of each other in a number of boroughs and townships contiguous to and near by the Borough of East Pittsburgh in Allegheny County. Before March 1, 1925,…