J. L. Cooper & Co. v. Anchor Securities Co.

Millard, J. —

June 21,1937, J. L. Cooper & Company, a corporation, engaged in real estate and insurance business in Spokane, purchased the business and good will of T. J. Corkery Company, a corporation, which was operating an agency in Spokane for the writing of general lines of insurance. On the date of that sale, T. J. Corkery, owner and manager of Corkery Company, was employed in the insurance department of Cooper & Company in which employment he continued until May 10, 1939, when he became manager of the insurance department, the trade name of which is the H. S. Gimble Insurance Agency, of…