Beck v. Edwards Lewis, Inc.

Complainants seek to compel the specific performance of a written contract to sell garage premises and a garage business in the City of Atlantic City, New Jersey, with furniture, fixtures, stock in trade and good-will, and to refrain from engaging in the garage business in Atlantic City for a period of five years from the date of settlement. The vendors named in the contract are the defendants Edwards and Lewis, Incorporated, owner of the real and personal property, and Edward Krassenstein, its secretary and the manager of its garage.

The sole controversial issue is whether or not the contract…