Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. v. Murray

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “the mere giving up of a job, business or profession by one who decides to accept a contract for alleged life employment ... to place himself in a position to accept and perform the contract” is not sufficient consideration for lifetime employment
• alleged oral promise of lifetime employment in exchange for refraining from selling to previous customers for commissions
• mere giving up of a job, business or profession by one who decides to accept contract for life employment is but an incident necessary on his part to place himself in a position to accept contract for life employment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).