ELDRIDGE v. Johnston

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Noting that, “in order to recover for his repeated wrongs, [the] plaintiffs would be compelled to bring a multiplicity of actions at law. Courts of equity will freely grant injunctions to prevent a multiplicity of actions.”
• where a contract is partly legal and partly illegal, the legal part of the contract will be enforced where separable from the illegal part
• where a contract is partly legal and partly illegal, the legal part of the contract will be enforced where separable from the illegal part
• contracts in restraint of trade, providing for injunction against working in certain field, are enforceable if limited, reasonable, and supported by consideration
• Where a contract is partly legal and partly illegal, the legal part of the contract will be enforced where separable from the illegal part.
• restricting agreement covering Oregon and Washington to four Oregon comities

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).