Freudenthal v. Espey

The parties to this record are physicians. The defendant in error instituted a suit in the lower court, and will hereinafter be called plaintiff, against the plaintiff in error, who will hereinafter be called the defendant, for an injunction to restrain the latter from practicing his profession in the city of Trinidad in violation of a restrictive covenant in a written con-* tract between the two.

The complaint, after stating the professional character of the parties, and that plaintiff had long *490been a practitioner in that community, had a large and extensive practice, and needed an assistant,…