Hopkins v. Bryant

Kenna, Judge:

This suit involves the enforcement of a restrictive covenant.

B. H. Hopkins and R. E. Bryant conducted an automobile body repair business at Beckley for a number of years, first as a partnership and then as a corporation, of which they were sole owners. Hopkins was president of the corporation, and by force of circumstances, also its chief executive. A resolution dissolving the corporation was adopted February 5, 1937, and on the same day, Bryant sold all his interest in the corporate property to Hopkins. The contract of sale contained the covenant that the seller would not engage…