Partlow v. Mathews

This is an appeal from a judgment enforcing a restrictive clause in a partnership agreement.

Some time prior to 1949, a group of doctors in Olympia conceived the idea of organizing a clinic and of constructing and equipping a building for that purpose. They contacted other doctors with the view of having them associate in the venture. The original members organized the Des Chutes Investment Corporation, which purchased real estate, and erected and equipped a building, at an approximate expenditure of five hundred thousand dollars.

July 29, 1949, a partnership agreement was entered into, forming…