Jefferson Reeves & Co. v. Sprague

Citations

• 19 S.E. 707
• 114 N.C. 647

Syllabus

<p>Injunction — Breach of ('oniract — Good-will in Trade.</p> <p>AVhei’e S., a druggist, in selling out a part of his stock to plaintiffs, agreed not to engage in the drug business in a certain town either directly or indirectly and afterwards sold the remainder of his stock to defendant 1)., who gave a mortgage upon the stock to secure the purchase price, and conducted a drug business in the town: Held, in an action to enjoin D. from conducting such business, that he is not. an agent of S., the mortgagee, in the sense of conducting a business forbidden by the contract between S. and plaintiffs, and cannot be enjoined from carrying it on.</p>