Raub v. Van Horn

Citations

• 133 Pa. 573
• 19 A. 704
• 1890 Pa. LEXIS 936

Syllabus

<p>1. The covenant of a physician, on the sale of the good-will and practice of his profession, that he will not resume practice in the village or its vicinity, is not broken by his opening an office four miles distant and there treating patients from the vicinity of the village, who come to him without his solicitation.</p> <p>2. The right to an order upon the opposite party for the production of the books and papers of the latter, under § 1, act of February 27, 1798, 3 Sm. L. 308, is confined to their production on the trial of the cause, unless where the parties have a common interest in the instruments of evidence called for.</p>