Rubin v. Sheldon

This is an action for breach of contract on the sale of the physical property and good will of a mercantile business.

Briefly, the complaint is that on or about December 8, 1926, the plaintiffs purchased of the defendant and his wife the wholesale newspaper business then conducted by them at No. 19 Ferry street in the city of Troy, Rensselaer county, N. Y., and the defendant agreed not to engage in any way in any similar business in the counties of Albany and Rensselaer for a period of five years; that in violation of said agreement the defendant, in association with others, opened a rival…