Manson v. Hunt

Citations

• 82 Wash. 291
• 144 P. 45
• 1914 Wash. LEXIS 1505

Syllabus

<p>Monopolies — Contracts—-Varidity—Constitutional Provisions— Construction. A contract between two steamship companies operating boats between the same points, whereby one, in consideration of .?1,500, agreed to withdraw its boats from the route for a period of three years, contravenes Const., art. 12, § 22, prohibiting monopolies and providing that no incorporated company shall directly or indirectly combine or make any contract with another for the purpose of fixing the price, or limiting the production, or regulating the transportation of any product or commodity.</p> <p>Contracts — Validity—Public Policy — Restraint op Competition —Relief. A note based upon a contract, knowingly made in restraint of trade, which so recited and showed that the note was part of the contract, is void as against public policy, and will not be enforced by the courts.</p>