Martin v. Ratliff Furniture Co.

WADDILL, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a judgment which upholds the validity of a “stay-out-of-business” agreement and enjoins the appellants from engaging in the furniture business in Clark County for a period of five years. The' appellant, William S. Martin, urges that the agreement is an instrument in restraint of trade and is void. Also he urges that the agreement was obtained from him by duress, and without consideration, and therefore is unenforceable. Both appellants insist that the judgment is erroneous because the court applied the provisions of the injunction to the appellant,…