Judge Milton J. Helmick will deliver a written judgment in the case of Gudrun Jensen v. Ragnar B. Berbom, he informed counsel for the principals on Monday (Oct. 18) after their arguments. The case has 10 do with the validity of a contract and raised various legal questions connected with a clause in which Mr.
Berbom is restrained from canvassing persons or firms who are customers of the Scandinavian Trading Company while the latter is in existence. Mr. Berbom, a former manager of the company, severed his connection with the company last June 21. The complainant, represented by MZ. Myron Wiener, alleged damages of $1,000 a month'through Mr. Berbom's activities in canvassing and soliciting business in the field of ship chandlery, and is asking for $1,000 per month of ite equivalent in U. S. currency with interest from June 2, 1934, the date of judgment, Mr. Cornell 8. Franklin, counsel for the plaintiff, pointed out that his client was not seeking to restrain Mr. Berbom from the chandlery business for all time, but only so Jong as the Scandinavian Trading Company was in existence, and sought to limit his activities Shanghai, Mr. Wiener had declared the contract unreasonable and un-Limited in me or space.
Tu rebuttal, Mr. Wiener declared that these arguments of Mr. Franklin constituted an interpretation of the contract, and pointed out that the court hed no authority to write ints
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