Pitts v. Montgomery

Citations

• 79 Miss. 250

Syllabus

<p>1. CONTRACTS. Penalty. Construction.</p> <p>Penal contracts are strictly construed.</p> <p>2. Same. Restraint of trade.</p> <p>Contracts in restraint of trade are strictly construed.</p> <p>3. Same. Case.</p> <p>A contract for the sale of a livery stable by which the vendor, who at the time owned another stable, on a different lot, bound himself, under a penalty, “not to rent his stable or lot” to any person dealing in horses or mules, is not violated by the vendor building a stable on a different lot from either of those on which he had stables at the date of contract and renting it to a party engaged in the livery stable business.</p>