Legal Opinion
Commonwealth Life Insurance Company v. Francis Craig Neal
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 5, 1982No. 81-3520PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Per curiam
Plaintiff Commonwealth Life Insurance Company (“Commonwealth”) appeals from the district court’s, 521 F.Supp. 812, denial of a preliminary injunction restraining a former employee, defendant Francis Craig Neal, from soliciting Commonwealth policyholders. Having determined that the district court did not abuse its discretion in denying the injunction, we affirm.
The basic facts are not in dispute. Neal was employed in 1968 by First National Life Insurance Company as an insurance salesman handling primarily “industrial” or burial insurance. In 1971, First National merged with Commonwealth. Neal…
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