Ashley v. Lance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that in a five-man medical partnership, where a new partnership agreement was signed each time a new partner was added, the plaintiff doctor could invoke the partnership agreement despite being the only remaining partner after four partners left in concert to start a competitive practice
• “[a]ny partner can, by unilateral action, dissolve a particular partnership by withdrawing from it”
• “In interpreting the partnership agreement, including the restrictive covenant, the agreement must be read as a whole. It must also be construed in the light of the history of the partnership and its purpose.”
• “ ‘A young professional man may be willing to trade his future right to compete in a given community for an immediate and lucrative share in an established practice.’ ” (quoting McCallum v. Asbury, 238 Or. 257, 393 P.2d 774, 777 (1964))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).