Pratte v. Balatsos

The terms of the contract between the plaintiff and Larochelle are not in dispute. It provided that in return for payment of forty per cent of the income from the record player, the plaintiff might install it in “a prominent and convenient part of . . . [Larochelle’s] place of business” and that “said machine shall be operated during the term of this Agreement [fourteen years and six months] and that no similar equipment nor any other kind of coin-operated machine will be installed or operated on said premises by anyone else.” Thus it was intended by the parties to the agreement that the…