Dillion v. Anderson

DIXON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment construing two written instruments : one a contract of sale of an insurance agency, the other a covenant by the seller not to compete with the purchaser.

For a good many years C. B. Anderson and his wife Ruth P. Anderson owned and operated an insurance agency known as C. B. ANDERSON AGENCY, which specialized in health and accident insurance for school children. It was a thriving agency, operating in several states at a large profit.

C. B. Anderson died July 20, 1959, leaving a will naming as devisees, share and share alike, his…