UDALL, Justice.
Whether a mutual covenant in the contract before us — restricting the parties from engaging in a competitive business for a stated period of years in a given territory — is violative of our statute, is the sole question now to be determined.
It has always been the policy of the common law to foster trade and promote free competition; most states, including Arizona, have statutes prohibiting, within certain limits, monopolies and...
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