Paine v. United States Playing-Card Co.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

The bill of complaint in tins cause is filed by Cassius M. Paine against the United States Playing-Card Company, seeking, by way of preliminary injunction, the enforcement of the terms of a contract entered into in 1892 between the complainant and the National Card Company. The clause of the contract under which the relief is sought is as follows:

“Said second party [meaning the National Card Company] contracts and agrees that during the life of this contract it will not, directly or indirectly, handle, manufacture, or sell any other apparatus, method, or system for…