Baker v. . Cordon
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Rule on defendant to show cause why he should not be attached for contempt, heard at Spring Term, 1881, of Edgecombe Superior Court, before Shipp, J. The pleadings show that in May, 1880, Joseph E. Baker, father of the plaintiff, for the benefit of plaintiff and for the purpose of starting him in business on his own account, bought of defendant, who for a number of years had been engaged in the business of selling drugs and medicines and preparing prescriptions of physicians…
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Rule on defendant to show cause why he should not be attached for contempt, heard at Spring Term, 1881, of Edgecombe Superior Court, before Shipp, J. The pleadings show that in May, 1880, Joseph E. Baker, father of the plaintiff, for the benefit of plaintiff and for the purpose of starting him in business on his own account, bought of defendant, who for a number of years had been engaged in the business of selling drugs and medicines and preparing prescriptions of physicians in the town of Tar-boro, his stock of drugs, &c., and the good will of his business, for $1,500, then paid, and the…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. J.,
áfter stating the facts. It is quite manifest the injunction contemplated (and such is a fair interpreta tion of the words in which its extent is expressed) the defendant’s personal disconnection with the drug business in the town, and the securing to the plaintiff the full measure of the expected fruits of his father’s contract. Under the subsequent arrangement by which other proprietors are nominally substituted for himself, and he remains in possession of the assigned stock and continues to deal with it in all respects under the supervision of no superior, as before, for all…
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