Legal Opinion
In Re Marketing Investors Corp.
Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)
Decided December 31, 1998No. 05-98-00535-CVPublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRANCES MALONEY, Justice.
Relator contends the trial judge abused his discretion in not ordering John F. MacDonald, former president of Marketing Investors Corporation (the Corporation), to return certain documents taken from the Corporation and in not disqualifying his counsel who refused to return the documents. We agree and conditionally grant mandamus.
BACKGROUND
In 1995j as a condition of his employment, MacDonald agreed in writing to be bound by the Corporation’s policies as contained in its manual. Those policies restricted the use of trade secrets, as well as proprietary and…
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