Webb Press Co. v. Bierce

Citations

• 116 La. 905
• 41 So. 203
• 1906 La. LEXIS 593

Syllabus

<p>Contracts—Public Policy — Restraint oe Trade.</p> <p>A contract whereby a party, who contemplates engaging in a lawful business in a particular place, for a pecuniary consideration paid and promised, binds himself not to do so, in favor of another, with whom he had no previous business relations and who is about ■engaging in the same business at the same place, is void, under the general commercial law, as in unreasonable restraint of trade, and a fortiori is it unenforceable when in contravention of an express prohibition of. the law of the place where it was made and is to be executed.</p> <p>[Ed. Note.—For cases in point, see vol. 11, Cent. Dig. Contracts, §§ 542, 553.]</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>