Tyler v. Bennett

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Roy L. Tyler III appeals the jury verdict and judgment against him in his suit on Gregory E. Bennett’s promissory note. Bennett executed a promissory note for $150,000 for the purchase of Tyler’s title search company, Preferred Research. Bennett counterclaimed for breach of the purchase agreement, including a covenant by which Tyler agreed not to perform title abstracts within a three-mile radius of Savannah, Georgia, within two years of execution of the contract. Bennett alleged breach of the purchase agreement in that Tyler had acted to transfer several Preferred…