Eureka Laundry Co. v. Long
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee ■county: WabbeN D. TabbaNt, Circuit Judge. Suit in equity. On tbe lltb of April, 1909, tbe plaintiff and defendant entered into a contract for an indefinite period whereby tbe defendant for a consideration therein named agreed to drive a laundry wagon for tbe plaintiff on a specified route in tbe city of Milwaukee.
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Appeal from an order of tbe circuit court for Milwaukee ■county: WabbeN D. TabbaNt, Circuit Judge. Suit in equity. On tbe lltb of April, 1909, tbe plaintiff and defendant entered into a contract for an indefinite period whereby tbe defendant for a consideration therein named agreed to drive a laundry wagon for tbe plaintiff on a specified route in tbe city of Milwaukee. Tbe portion of tbe contract material to tbis case is as follows: “Tbe said party of tbe second part also agrees that be will not at any time while be is in tbe employ of tbe said party of tbe first part, or within two years…
1Opinion of the Court
ViNJE, T.
Tbe first question raised by tbe appeal is tbe validity of tbe portion of tbe contract set out in tbe foregoing statement of facts wherein tbe defendant agrees, during tbe term of bis employment and for two years thereafter, not to solicit laundry trade from any customers of tbe plaintiff who have been supplied by him during bis employment, and that be will not, during such employment and for two years thereafter, either directly or indirectly engage in tbe laqndry business in that part of Milwaukee known as Route 13. Were this a ease where tbe defendant bad sold plaintiff tbe…
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