Reid v. Bryant

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

1. While the purchase of the service-station premises might alone constitute sufficient consideration for the verbal agreement of the seller not to operate a similar business on his adjoining land for a period of eight and one-half years (Langenback v. Mays, 205 Ga. 706, 54 S. E. 2d, 401), yet the mutual obligations under the verbal agreement constituted consideration to support the contract which became binding upon each, prohibiting the seller from operating a service station on his land adjoining that sold for eight and one-half years, and the buyer from operating…