Orkin Exterminating Company, Inc. v. Weaver

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The appellant Orkin is engaged in the pest control business in many states. The appellee Weaver worked for Orkin, as a sales and service representative, from 1965 until he was discharged in 1973 for having failed to file reports of his calls upon customers. Within a week Weaver re-entered the pest control business, in partnership with another former Orkin employee. Orkin then brought this suit to enforce, by injunction, a provision in Weaver’s contract of employment by which he agreed not to engage in the pest control business in certain areas for a period of two…