O'HARA v. Lance

TULLAR, Superior Court Judge.

Defendant-appellee General W. Lance owned and operated a business known as the Ace-Lance Refrigeration Company, established in Phoenix in 1942. In 1946, he and plaintiff-appellant Richard C. O’Hara entered into a partnership agreement and continued in the same business as Ace-Lance & O’Hara Refrigeration Company.

On July 21, 1949, an agreement to dissolve the partnership was reduced to writing, Lance selling all partnership assets, including good will, to O’Hara. The former agreed not to compete with the latter for a period of two years, and granted to O’Hara the…