Eisner v. Schulman’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““. . . '. . . What then did they intend when they used the language set out in the covenant? I believe they used such verbiage in the same way any other simple folks would have used it. They meant what is commonly understood by the word “block,” that if one went out of the store and walked five blocks in any direction that defendant could not do business within the area of the figure thus formed by the exterior boundaries of the distances walked. . . . “. ; ( 96 N.Y.S.2d at 460 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. USA Oil Corporation v. City of Lipscomb