O. K. Transfer & Storage Co. v. Crabtree

Hart, J.,

(after stating the facts). This court has sustained as valid agreements by the vendor of a business, with or without limitations as to time, not to carry on the business within the limits of a certain city. Bloom v. Home Insurance Agency, 91 Ark. 367; Hampton v. Caldwell, 95 Ark. 387; Kimbro v. Wells, 112 Ark. 126; and Kimbro v. Wells, 121 Ark. 45.

Under this rule Crabtree might make a valid agreement with the purchaser of his stock not to engage in the same business again in the same city as the corporation which purchased his stock. Assuming (without deciding the question) that a…