Parkhurst v. Brook
Supreme Court of Vermont
Debt on specialty. Pleas, the general issue, and license. Trial by jury, Orleans County, March Term, 1899, Watson, J., presiding. Verdict directed for the plaintiff to recover $500, as liquidated damages. Judgment on verdict. The defendant excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtNowell, J.
The parties being separately engaged in buying and selling wood in North Troy and vicinity, the defendant sold his wood to the plaintiff, and agreed not to engage, nor be interested, “ in the wood business, that is to say, in buying, selling or furnishing wood * * * in said North Troy nor in the immediate surrounding vicinity,” so long as the plaintiff was engaged in that business there; and for a breach, to forfeit $500 as liquidated damages. The defendant then lived in North Troy, but some months after, moved onto a farm six miles away, and has lived there ever since. At one time while…
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