Buck v. Coward
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Branch; Yaple, J. Bill by Philo A. Buck against Richard Coward, Wallace Monroe, and William Monroe to restrain them from carrying on a certain business in violation of their agreement to refrain therefrom. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The complainant, in the latter part of 1897, filed this bill for the purpose of restraining defendants from selling flour and buying and shipping grain in the village of Bronson. It is the claim of the defendants:
1. That the contract set up by complainant is in restraint of trade.
*5312. That the business they are engaged in is not the business they sold complainant.
3. That the complainant consented to their engaging in the business they are now doing.
The testimony was taken in open court, and, after hearing it, the circuit judge dismissed the bill. The complainant brings the case here by appeal.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hubbard v. MillerMichigan Supreme Court · 1873
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