Arctic Dairy Co. v. Winans

I think Mr. Justice WIEST'S construction of the statutory exception is too narrow. A statute should be construed so as to accomplish its obvious purpose. City of Grand Rapids v.Crocker, 219 Mich. 178. Nothing should prevent such a result if it can be attained without doing violence to the language used in the enactment.

The statute (3 Comp. Laws 1929, §§ 16667-16672) does not provide that the exception therein made applies only to "an ancillary covenant by a transferor." Instead the exception expressly provides that the statute shall not apply "where the only object or restraint imposed by the…