Age Publishing Co. v. Times Publishing Co.

Citations

• 25 Ohio C.C. Dec. 421
• 21 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 24

Syllabus

<p>RESTRAINT OF TRADE.</p> <p>Contract of Newspaper Publisher to Withdraw from Evening Field for Consideration, Not in Restraint of Trade. '</p> <p>An agreement entered into between two corporations owning newspapers, both published in the evening in the same city, providing that in consideration of a sum of money specified and to be paid in due course orie of said publications should be changed from an evening to a morning paper, and further that for a period named the said company would not again enter the evening newspaper field in that city, is not a contract in restraint of trade, and an action lies for damages on account of its .breach.</p> <p>[Syllabus by the court.]</p>