Richards v. American Desk & Seating Co.
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Manitowoc County. The plaintiff sues as assignee of the Manitowoc Manufacturing Company, a Wisconsin corporation, which was engaged in the manufacture and sale of school, church, and opera-house furniture, and other furniture and specialties, and the defendant is an Illinois corporation, and during the times named in the pleadings was engaged in buying, selling, and manufacturing the same kinds of furniture.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Manitowoc County. The plaintiff sues as assignee of the Manitowoc Manufacturing Company, a Wisconsin corporation, which was engaged in the manufacture and sale of school, church, and opera-house furniture, and other furniture and specialties, and the defendant is an Illinois corporation, and during the times named in the pleadings was engaged in buying, selling, and manufacturing the same kinds of furniture. The action is brought for the recover}7 of $10,000 for goods, wares, and merchandise of the kind above mentioned, sold and delivered by the plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtPinney, J.
The agreement in question is in partial or limited restraint of the trade of both of the parties to it *512in certain, lines of articles which were to be manufactured and sold by the plaintiff’s assignor to the defendant, up to the amount of $200,000, and during a period of less than four years. By the terms of the agreement the plaintiff’s assignor was prevented from selling, directly or indirectly, any other like articles of its manufacture during that time in a large part of Wisconsin and of Michigan, and in any part of thirty other states and territories of the United States, and a like,…
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- Bishop v. PalmerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Tode v. . GrossNew York Court of Appeals · 1891
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