Ashley v. Lance

We are concerned on this appeal with the remedies available to a member of a 5-man medical partnership when four of the partners act in concert to dissolve'the partnership and start a competitive practice.

For 5% years prior to June 15, 1953, Dr. Grant D. Ashley was engaged in the practice of medicine in Bothell, Washington. On that.date, he and Dr. Richard V. Lance, a defendant in this action, entered into a partnership known as “Doctor’s Clinic” for the practice of medicine in a building owned by Dr. Ashley. In 1954 Dr. Ashley built a larger building, and Dr. Phil Gardner was taken into the…