Eagle Pencil Co. v. Jannsen

The defendant in this case was employed under a written contract which ran from week to week and provided that the defendant should not be employed in a similar business to that of plaintiff’s in any place in the United States of America for a period of five years from the time that his employment with the plaintiff ceased. It appears that the defendant’s employment consisted of work as a draftsman and engineer and that he was required to make drawings of all of plaintiff’s machinery during the number of years that he worked for the plaintiff, thereby becoming thoroughly familiar with their…