Legal Opinion

Colonial Laundries, Inc. v. Henry

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided June 23, 1927PublishedCited by 32 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.

This case is heard on appeal from a decree granting a preliminary injunction restraining respondents from soliciting laundry business from certain people from whom respondents as drivers for complainant had collected laundry.

It is agreed that for several years the respondents were employed at will by complainant or its predecessors as drivers of laundry wagons; that upon entering into employment they were given the names of certain regular customers upon whom to make periodical calls for the solicitation and collection of laundry to be done by complainant; that such customers constituted what…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Dent v. West VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
  2. Peabody v. NorfolkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
  3. Sherman v. PfefferkornMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
  4. Empire Steam Laundry v. LozierCalifornia Supreme Court · 1913
  5. Von Bremen v. . MacMonniesNew York Court of Appeals · 1910

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3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Morgan's Home Equipment Corp. v. MartucciSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1957
  2. Continental Car-Na-Var Corp. v. MoseleyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1944
  3. Renpak, Inc. v. OppenheimerDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1958
  4. Wexler v. GreenbergSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1960
  5. J. L. Cooper & Co. v. Anchor Securities Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1941

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