Hamer Holding Group, Inc. v. Elmore

Plaintiff appeals, pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 307(a)(1) (134 Ill. 2d R. 307(a)(1)), from the circuit court’s denial of a preliminary injunction after remandment of the cause by this court in a previous appeal. (Hamer Holding Group, Inc. v. Elmore (1990), 202 Ill. App. 3d 994, 560 N.E.2d 907 (hereinafter Hamer I).) In Hamer I, we remanded the action for a determination of the scope of plaintiff’s business at the time defendant left its employ and whether, based on that finding, defendant’s covenant not to compete, the enforceability of which was the core issue in Hamer I, as it is here,…