Eastern Finance Co. v. Gordon

Eastern Finance Company, a Small Loan Corporation, sometimes hereinafter called the plaintiff, filed its bill in the court below against Charles Henry Gordon, sometimes hereinafter referred to as the defendant, alleging that on August 31, 1940, the parties entered into a written contract whereby Gordon was employed as the manager of the plaintiff’s Newport News office for a term of five years beginning on September 1, 1940, at the salary of $180 per month; that Gordon had agreed in the contract that he would not “engage in the small loan business on his own account either directly or…