Metropolitan Ice Co. v. Ducas

This is an appeal by the defendant from a final decree entered on March 12, 1935, enjoining the defendant from engaging directly or indirectly in the ice business within the cities of Cambridge and Somerville, for the period of eighteen months from the date of the entry of the decree. The testimony is reported under Rule 76 of the Superior Court (1932) without findings of fact.

The defendant and one Booas until 1926 conducted an ice business in Somerville and Cambridge in this Commonwealth, under the name “Daylight Ice Company.” In 1926 they entered into an agreement with the plaintiff, under…