In the court case of David v. Mason, the ruling court finally declared that the parties did make out applicable agreements. Further, it also stated that David and mason seems to have made promises to each other in order to receive certain percentage of benefit from one another. Mason herein agreed to keep a novice upon the condition that David would really not have got into competition with Mason by simply setting up a competing establishments within a distance of ten miles at any time within the entire time span of fourteen years of leaving services.