McMurray v. Bateman

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a restrictive covenant prohibiting a doctor from practicing medicine or surgery within a fifty mile radius from his former medical office was not too broad
• “if there had originally been a lack of mutuality in its provisions, the deficiency would have been supplied by performance”
• a contract can be altered by subsequent agreement except where the interest of a third party is involved
• territorial restriction upheld where employer had “reasonable prospects” of extending practice into restricted area
• violation of a posi-employment restrictive covenant, and not the “devote your full time” provision
• sustaining a three-year injunction against competition under Georgia law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).